Japan earthquake: life goes on amid the rubble - in pictures

The sun rises over Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture Photograph: Haruka Takahashi/AP

People rest next to debris and uprooted trees near the tsunami-hit Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. Only 34 students out of a total of 108 survived the disaster Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

A young girl is greeted by a costumed entertainer at a shelter in Fukushima Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

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

A volunteer gives a massage to an evacuee at an evacuation centre in Koriayama, Fukushima prefecture Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters

A man walks along a road through Rikuzentakata Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Salvaged religious sculptures are placed beside a road in Rikuzentakata Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images

People walk in an area destroyed by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in Taro, Iwate prefecture Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Police walk along a path through the rubble of Rikuzentakata Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A woman walks with her bicycle on a seawall in Taro, Iwate prefecture Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Traffic drives along a road in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture Photograph: Asahi Shimbun/Getty