Featured photojournalist: David Guttenfelder

Soldiers stop to look at a boat blocking their way while trying to clear a road in Onagawa Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Soldiers pay their respects as workers shovel dirt on to coffins during a mass funeral in Yamamoto Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A family at a shelter in Rikuzentakata, one of the worst hit areas Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A fireman explains to a woman where they found the body of her mother, whose body is wrapped and lying in the background in front of her home in Onagawa Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Residents walk down an empty street in Onagawa Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A fish lies on top of a destroyed car in Onagawa Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Evacuees receive soup in a line at a shelter in Minamisanriku Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Volunteers serve soup to refugees at a shelter in Rikuzentakata Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A traditional Japanese sandal lies among the rubble of Onagawa Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A family of evacuees carry away belongings after salvaging them from their destroyed home in Rikuzentakata Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Two elderly women and their pet dog pass by a ship washed into their neighbourhood by the tsunami as they search for the remains of their home in Kesennuma. More than a quarter of the city's population is over 64 Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A husband and wife stand on the dock as workers attempt to attach ropes to their submerged home to try to pull it ashore on Oshima island Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Survivors check a board with names of the missing inside a shelter in Rikuzentakata, where at least 1,800 people are missing in the town, which had a population of 23,000 Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A flooded and debris-lined street in the tsunami-ravaged city of Kesennuma Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP