Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Residents walk on a road past debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, March 18, 2011.

Emergency workers walk past survivors sitting near debris in Rikuzentakata, March 18, 2011.

 

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An elderly man sits on a chair among rubble in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, March 18, 2011.

Firefighters search for survivors in the snow in Minamisanriku

 

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People stand in driving snow as the yait for a bus to leave town in Sendai, Japan, March 17, 2011.

Braving snow, an elderly woman carries water bottles on her bicycle in Rikuzentakata

 

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Evacuees stretch while doing exercise at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata, northern Japan, Saturday, March 19, 2011, after Friday's earthquake and tsunami

Nine-year-old Toshihito Aisawa pictured at an evacuation centre in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on March 15, searching for his missing father, mother and grandmother.

 

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Tayo Kitamura, 40, kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura, 69, after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, Japan, Saturday, March 19.

A police officer checks a dead body in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture

 

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A man, right, cries and hugs his cousin as they are reunited at a shelter and he is told that all his family are safe in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture on Friday, a week after the earthquake and tsunami.

Shigemasa Kanno, 74, holds a photograph of his missing 68-year-old wife Sueko Kanno, at the debris of his destroyed house in Rikuzentakata, Japan, March 19.

 

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A woman collects water leaking from a manhole in Ishimaki, Japan, March 19.

People stand in line to wait for water supply in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture

 

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A woman wearing a helmet walks through traffic chaos as people are forced to walk home between gridlocked vehicles in central Tokyo after an earthquake off the coast of northern Japan

Residents carry supplies bought at a supermarket in downtown Sendai, as it snows.

 

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A young survivor queues for drinking water in Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture on Friday.

Somech Roy, an Israeli living in Sendai, gives a bread to a man in downtown Sendai. A friend baked 1,500 loaves of breads for free distribution after he received donations from Jews in Japan and abroad.

 

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Members of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue team head down a flight of stairs to start their operations in Ofunato March 16, 2011.

Construction workers pray in silence Saturday before starting to build temporary housing for earthquake-affected residents of the coastal city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture.

 

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U.S. citizens walk out from the Sendai, Japan, City Hall on Friday as they prepare to evacuate on a bus sent by the U.S. Embassy.

March 19: Family members on a bus part from father in Koriyama, northern Japan after an earthquake and its subsequent tsunami. The bus service for Niigata station at Japan Railway Koriyama station resumed.

 

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Survivors press their hands together in prayer to mourn their relatives at the devastated town of Onagawa

March 18: A survivor observes a moment of silence to the wail of siren at the devastated town of Yamada

 

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People visited the devastated neighborhood of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture.

A survivor peered into her destroyed home in the debris of Yamada in Iwate prefecture.

 

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Evacuees shared a plate of Japanese pickles and ate hot soup at an evacuation center in coastal city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.

March 19: A survivor of Japan's tsunami has lunch at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata,

 

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In this Thursday, March 18 photo, a farmer checks leeks cultivated in a vinyl house in the earthquake and tsunami-stricken town of Yamamoto, Japan. Japan said Saturday, March 19, that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex exceeded government safety limits.

 

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A group of woman head for a makeshift hot bath set up by Japanese Self-Defense Forces in Kamashi.

Aiko Musashi and her husband Katsuya remove belongings from their destroyed home. Residents have started returning to their home to begin the massive cleanup operation caused by a magnitude of 9.0 quake.

 

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Toyoki Sugawara looks out from his destroyed liquor shop where he is collecting any items he can salvage in Kesennuma on Friday.

Cars and buildings wrecked by last week's tsunami in outside Sendai.

 

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The body of a tsunami victim lay in the rubble at Rikuzentakata.

Japan soldiers pray for victims found in debris.

 

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Masahiro Hamaguchi hold a cherished artwork he recovered from his home in Kesennuma. As a welfare worker, he is not happy that more aid is not reaching the area.

Akiko Ito, 84, in front of her destroyed home.

 

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Residents shopped for food in a near-empty grocery store in Senmaya on Saturday, as food shortages continued.

A man walks after shopping at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo March 19. Fishmongers at the popular market reported that the number of customers and amount of sales were sharply down due to fears about blackouts and the nuclear disaster in northern Japan following last weeks earthquake and tsunami.