Japan tsunami survivors return to their homes

Rikuzentakata: Aki Kikawada stands in her flat, destroyed by the tsunami, on her first trip home to try to salvage some of the family belongings Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

A car on top of a destroyed building in Minamisanriku Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

A woman lingers where her home was once located in Iwate Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features

A family photograph and a dead fish in the rubble in Motoyoshi Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

A man picks up a box of frozen salmon at a local fish processing company's storage building in the coastal fishing town of Onagawa. Local residents have been surviving on packaged fish, which are still half frozen, plus emergency food supplied at an evacuation centre Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA

Destroyed houses and debris in Rikuzentakata Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

A boat sits on top of a building in Otsuchi Photograph: Hiroto Nomoto/AP

Japanese soldiers remove debris near damaged buildings in Onagawa Photograph: AP

A resident looks at his destroyed house in Rikuzentakata Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

A Toyota dealership in Minamisanriku town Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters

Residents carry boxes of food in front of the Kyotoku-maru fishing trawler in Kesennuma Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

Residents carry belongings collected from their house in Kesennuma Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

The remains of a tombstone in a cemetery in Natori Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images

A man inspects the damage as he tries to retrieve belongings from a destroyed house in Otsuchi Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A man walks his dog in Kesennuma Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters