Japanese evacuees and funerals – in pictures

An evacuee walks through a gymnasium that has turned into a shelter in Yamagata Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

A boy celebrates his birthday at an evacuation centre in Kesennuma Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

People make phone calls at an evacuation centre in Kesennuma Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

A man receives medical treatment in Ofunato Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

A man reads newspapers in the gymnasium in Yamagata Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Evacuees from Fukushima collect food supplies at an evacuation centre in Saitama Photograph: Masanobu Nakatsukasa/AP

People share a communal bath set up in tents in Rikuzentakata Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

People chat near drying laundry at a gymnasium in Yamagata Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

A man walks among boxes of relief supplies in Onagawa Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

A man looks for family photos in a room of personal belongings salvaged from the ruins in Yamada Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A resident salvages from a building destroyed by the tsunami in Onagawa Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Yukiko Kometa, 74, stands in front of her ruined house in snowy Noda village Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

A soldier uses a snow shovel to clear a street of mud in Kesennuma Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

A woman touches a portrait of a grandson after a cremation in Natori Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Relatives gather around an open coffin during a mass funeral in Kesennuma Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Workers shovel dirt on to coffins during a mass funeral in Yamamoto Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP