Japan's recovery from the tsunami and earthqake - in pictures

Children play in the Red Cross Smile Park in Fukushima, Japan Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

The children's play facility was set up to give Fukushima children, who cannot play outdoors due to fears of radiation, somewhere to have fun Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Children play in the Red Cross Smile Park Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Miho Suzuki prays at a shrine to the memory of her daughter Hana, and 73 other children and 10 teachers who lost their life in the tsunami at Okawa elementary school in Okawa village, near Ishinomaki Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Japanese coast guard divers search the harbour for the bodies of victims in Kesennuma, Japan Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Wataru Sato, 63, stands by Kesennuma harbour as divers search for bodies. Sato's sister died in the tsunami, along with her husband and one of their sons Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Okawa elementary school where 74 children and 10 teachers died in the tsunami Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian

Divers search for bodies in Kesennuma, Japan Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert for the Guardian