Sato is now preparing for her coming-of-age ceremony, which is typical for Japanese year-olds, hoping for a reunion in town so she can reconnect with her former classmates who have scattered. In this aerial view from a drone, large swaths of land remain empty after the area that was once a thriving town was destroyed by the tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on March 8, A truck drives past a roadside sign on March 8, in Namie, Japan.
Radiation-contaminated soil is stored on March 9, , in Minamisoma, Japan. Mika Sato, 46, who lost her daughter Airi in the earthquake, reacts as she stands in front of a memorial monument built for Airi and her kindergarten classmates in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 1, Mika Sato shows a photo of her daughter Airi, taken in August with her smartphone, in Ishinomaki, on March 1, In this picture taken on February 27, , Reverend Akira Sato, wearing a protective suit, poses outside the empty Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church inside the exclusion zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture—an area declared a no-go zone after the nuclear disaster.
Hisae Unuma wears a protective suit as she walks past an incinerator used to burn debris collected in the Fukushima cleanup, which was built in a rural village near Unuma's home where she lived before being evacuated, in a restricted zone in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 23, Unuma said she won't return even if the government scrapes the radioactive soil from her fields.
Radiation levels around her house are around 20 times the background level in Tokyo, according to a dosimeter reading carried out by Reuters. Only the removal of Fukushima's radioactive cores will make her feel safe, a task that will take decades to complete.
A bamboo tree grows inside Hisae Unuma's collapsing home, where she lived before being evacuated in , near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, in a restricted zone in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 23, Unuma fled as the cooling system at Tokyo Electric Power Company's nuclear plant failed and its reactors began to melt down. Her home withstood the earthquake a decade ago but is now close to collapsing after years of being battered by wind, rain, and snow.
Hisae Unuma wears a protective suit as she prays at her family's graveyard near her home during a visit of her house, on the anniversary of her husband's passing in a restricted zone in Futaba on February 23, In this picture taken on February 26, , construction workers build a new seawall in the Taro district of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. A decade after the deadly waves unleashed by one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history, the lesson learned in many coastal towns was to build higher.
Fumio Ito, the head of public relations at Minami Sanriku Hotel Kanyo, recounts his experience of the tsunami disaster to participants during the Kataribe, or storytelling, bus tours in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 6, Tanashio meeting house, which was damaged by the tsunami, is being dismantled on March 8, , in Namie, Japan.
A cow eats grass inside the "difficult-to-return" zone on March 8, , in Namie, Japan. An abandoned house is seen inside the "difficult-to-return" zone on March 8, , in Namie, Japan. Shoes sit inside an abandoned house on March 9, , in Futaba, Japan. Yoshihito Sasaki, 70, who lost his wife, Mikiko, and his younger son, Jinya, in the earthquake and tsunami, looks at photos of his family that were damaged in the disaster and recovered by volunteers at his home in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on February 26, In this picture taken on February 26, , a boat is seen through a window in a seawall in Miyako, Miyagi Prefecture.
A woman from Ofunato, who lost her junior high-school classmates in the earthquake, calls her late friends inside Kaze-no-Denwa, a phone booth set up for people to speak with their deceased loved ones, at Bell Gardia Kujira-yama, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the disaster, in Otsuchi town, Iwate Prefecture, on February 28, Kazuyoshi Sasaki, 67, who lost his wife, Miwako, in the earthquake and tsunami, reacts as he calls his late wife inside Kazo-no-Denwa, a phone booth set up for people to call their deceased loved ones, in Otsuchi town, on February 27, Sasaki dialed his wife's cellphone number.
He explained to her how he had searched for her for days. When I came back to the house and looked up at the sky, there were thousands of stars, it was like looking at a jewel box," he added.
Kazuyoshi Sasaki looks out over the former residential area that was devastated by the disaster, near the grave of his late wife Miwako, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the disaster, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on February 28, We want to hear what you think about this article.
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