Surviving the Earthquake Aftermath in Japan

Surviving the Earthquake Aftermath in Japan A humanitarian crisis unfolds as victims eke out an existence after the twin disasters decimated the northeastern coast
Damir Sagolj / Reuters

What Remains
Ichiro Okazawa holds his four-year-old daughter Hiori in the ruins of their home, where they returned on March 20, 2011, to retrieve belongings in the destroyed residential part of Ofunato more than a week after the area was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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