People take shelter as a ceiling collapses in a bookstore during the earthquake in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2011. #

Quake-damaged, natural-gas storage tanks burn at the Cosmo oil refinery in Ichihara city, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, on March 11, 2011. #

Houses are swept by a tsunami in Natori City in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. #

A destructive tsunami rolls ashore in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. #

Streets are flooded after a tsunami and earthquake in Kesennuma city, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. #

Sendai Airport is swept by a tsunami on March 11, 2011. #

Hirono Power Station is seen as a wave approaches after an earthquake in Hirono Town, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. #

People watch the aftermath of tsunami waves after an earthquake at the Kessennuma port, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. #

Fishing boats and vehicles are carried by a tsunami wave at Onahama port in Iwaki city, northern Japan, on March 11, 2011. #

Whirlpools are seen following a tsunami and earthquake in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. #

Houses, some ablaze, are swept by seawater following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori city in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. #

People are stranded on the top of a building in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi, Japan, following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. #

Sendai Airport is surrounded by swirling seawater after a tsunami following an earthquake in Sendai, Japan, on March 11, 2011. #

Cars and airplanes swept by a tsunami sit among debris at Sendai Airport on March 11, 2011. #

Houses burn at night following the earthquake, in Natori city on March 11, 2011. #

Houses lie flattened after a powerful earthquake in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2011. #

Smoke rises from burning buildings in Yamadamachi in Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2011, a day after the earthquake and tsunami. #

A wrecked sports car sits in flood waters in Soma city, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on March 14, 2011. #

A destroyed landscape is pictured in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture on March 14, 2011. #

Firefighters search for victims on March 14, 2011, in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck. #

Cargo containers lie toppled and scattered after the earthquake in Sendai on March 12, 2011. #

A patient is evacuated from a destroyed hospital in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #

Debris covers a huge area in Natori, near Sendai, on March 13, 2011. #

Ships washed ashore by the tsunami sit on the land near a port in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #

Rescuers walk among collapsed houses and ships that were smashed together on the shore by the tsunami in Miyako on March 15, 2011. #

An aerial view of tsunami-devastated Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #

Rescue workers hold a girl they rescued from a building after the tsunami and earthquake in Kesennuma on March 12, 2011. #

A man walks in a destroyed street in the devastated city of Ishinomaki on April 15, 2011. #

Burned-out cars in earthquake-damaged Hitachi Harbour in Ibaraki Prefecture on March 12, 2011. #

A ferry stranded atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #

The hand of a man killed in the earthquake and tsunami, discovered among concrete sea barriers, on March 14, 2011, in Toyoma, northern Japan. #

Rescue workers search through rubble in an area hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi on March 15, 2011. #

A woman looks at the damage caused by a tsunami and an earthquake in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #

A vehicle sits half-submerged at a crossroad after the earthquake and tsunami in Sendai on March 12, 2011. #

The interior of a restaurant is strewn with debris after the recent tsunami, close to the airport in Sendai on March 14, 2011. #

Buildings destroyed by a tsunami are pictured in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. #