Japan: the recovery continues

Tsunami victims wait for their clothes to dry at a shelter in Yamada Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Tsuyako Ito is lost in contemplation at a shelter in Kamaishi Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

A PR department employee at the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency headquarters in Tokyo Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Eight-year-old Ayami Suzuki is tested for nuclear radiation at an evacuation centre in Fukushima Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

All hands on the quay as a family gathers the morning catch of amberjack fish from their boat at Ohara port, south of Fukushima Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

Members of the Japanese Self-Defence Force search for bodies in the waters around Sendai Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

A worker surveys the ditch where coffins containing tsunami victims are laid to be buried in a mass grave in the coastal city of Ishinomaki Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Reiko Kikuta, right, and her husband, Takeshi, wait on the port as workers attempt to attach ropes to their submerged home on Oshima Island Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Crates of possessions found near Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki are laid out for people to search Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

A woman cleans debris in her damaged house in Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

A woman looks through a family album, found more than 400 metres from where the house used to stand, in Sendai Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images

Damaged vehicles lined up in a Toyota car park at Sendai port Photograph: Wally Santana/AP

The destroyed port area in Kesenuma Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

A ship sits amid what was once a residential neighbourhood in Kesennuma Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Sad parents attend a graduation ceremony at Ashinome kindergarten in Kesenuma Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters