Photos: Japan earthquake: One month after (Photos)
By Anil Das | Apr 09, 2011 03:48 PM EDT
Massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and a severe nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Nuclear reactor hit Japan on March 11 Friday, killing thousands of people, rendering millions homeless and leaving scores of people exposed to nuclear radiation and life threatening injuries.
It has been four weeks since the catastrophe struck Japanese people and efforts are to bring back life to normal. With support pouring in from various quarters of the world to ease things in Japan and restore their livelihood, here is a summary of pictures showing the current situations in the country.
Massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and a severe nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Nuclear reactor hit Japan on March 11 Friday, killing thousands of people, rendering millions homeless and leaving scores of people exposed to nuclear radiation and life threatening injuries.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
School bags are seen at the tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 28, 2011. About eighty percent of the students and teachers were killed or are missing after the school was devastated by a tsunami following the March 11 earthquake.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A woman rides her bicycle past a boat in the rubble of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, twenty days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 31, 2011
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
An aerial view of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken by the Air Photo Service on March 24, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
Boys play soccer with volunteers at a school, which now acts as an evacuation shelter, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, on April 7, 2011 after the area was devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A woman is tested for possible nuclear radiation at an evacuation centre in Fukushima, northern Japan, March 28, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
The Empire State Building, lit in red and white as part of a coordinated effort by several landmark buildings around the world to raise awareness for the disaster in Japan, is pictured in New York April 4, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A dog rescued from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami is seen at Abe Pet Clinic in Ishinomaki, northern Japan April 7, 2011. The pet clinic became the main headquarters for treating and sheltering animals in Ishinomaki since the disaster struck the country last month.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
Japanese farmer Takakazu Anzai walks inside a greenhouse that will be used for planting rice near Fukushima, northern Japan April 5, 2011. The operator of Japan's nuclear power plant that has been crippled after an earthquake and tsunami, started paying "condolence money" on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into the sea.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A mobile phone of a victim is left in ruins of a civic hall destroyed by tsunami in Rikuzentakata April 2, 2011. According to a survivor and local media, between 60 and 100 people took shelter at the civic hall building after receiving the earthquake and tsunami warning. The building was designated as an evacuation shelter in the case of tsunami. Only eleven were rescued by a Japan's Self Defense Force helicopter, one of survivors said.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A single house remains standing in an area which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, near Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture April 1, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A girl walks with her mother after her first day of school at the Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan April 6, 2011. Over 70 schools began their regular classes on Wednesday in the city of Fukushima, after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country on March 11.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A boy talks with his mother on the first day of school at the Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan April 6, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A girl smiles on her first day of school at the Shimizu Elementary School in Fukushima, northern Japan April 6, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands in an area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, northern Japan April 4, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
Fisherman Rikio Furukawa, 76, repairs fishing equipment at the Kuji fishing port in Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, April 6, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
Japan Coast Guard members try to rescue a dog believed to have survived the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11 and also three weeks at sea, off Kesennuma, northern Japan April 1, 2011. The dog survived in a house swept away to sea three weeks ago by the devastating Japan tsunami was saved by a coast guard rescue team flying over an island of debris. Local television showed an aerial view of a brown medium-sized dog trotting around the roof of the house -- the only part of it floating above water -- before disappearing inside through a broken section of the roof
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
Anna Monma, 5, walks with her teddy bear, which she retrieved from her house destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Ishinomaki, northern Japan April 3, 2011.
Source: Reuters Date:04/09/2011
