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2011 Japan - 3 months after the quake

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2011 Japan - 3 months after the quake

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  1. A broken picture frame is left in the tsunami-hit Arahama area, three months and two days after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on June 13, 2011 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  2. Getty Images - NATORI, JAPAN - JUNE 13: Tomio Nakagawa, 61, prays for earthquake and tsunami victims on June 13, 2011 in Natori, Miyagi, Japan. The Japanese government has continued to struggle with the aftermath of thhe earthquake and tsunami and the problems affecting the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Authorities are preparing for an increased risk of viral and infectious disease as delays in the clearing the debris combine with the arrival of Japan's humid, rainy season.

  3. Getty Images - MINAMISANRIKU, JAPAN - JUNE 11: A woman cries as she prays for the earthquake and tsunami victims on June 11, 2011 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear on outbreak of virus infectious disease are mounting due to the humid rainy season on the corner and delay of the clearing the debris.

  4. Getty Images - MINAMISANRIKU, JAPAN - JUNE 11: Members of the Utatsu Junior High School baseball team pray for their coach who went missing at Minamisanriku City Hall Disaster Prevention Center in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in front of the remaning frame of the destroyed building on June 11, 2011 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear on outbreak of virus infectious disease are mounting due to the humid rainy season on the corner and delay of the clearing the debris.

  5. Getty Images - OTSUCHI, JAPAN - JUNE 12: A man picks up donated clothes during an event organized by volunteers on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear of infectious disease outbreak is mounting due to the humid rainy season and delay of the debris clearing.

  6. A construction worker works on temporary houses for evacuees who suffered from March 11th earthquake and tsunami, on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  7. Getty Images - OTSUCHI, JAPAN - JUNE 12: A construction worker works on temporary houses for evacuees who suffered from the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, as seen on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear of infectious disease outbreak is mounting due to the humid rainy season and delay of the debris clearing.

  8. Anti-nuclear demonstrators shout slogans during a march in Tokyo, Saturday, June 11, 2011. The protesters held mass demonstrations against the use of nuclear power, as Japan marked the three-month anniversary of the powerful earthquake and tsunami that killed tens of thousands and triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. (Koji Sasahara/Associated Press)

  9. Getty Images - People march in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti nuclear demonstration in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  10. AP Photo In this Tuesday, June 14, 2011 photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Junichi Matsumoto explains about TEPCO's plan to cover up the Unit 1 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station by showing its scale model at the TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo. The nuclear complex operator announced Tuesday their plan to start the construction of the Unit 1 reactor cover on June 27 to prevent the diffusion of radioactive substances.

  11. Reuters Pictures A machine collects radioactive material in the air for sampling at the Unit 3 reactor of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima prefecture in this handout picture taken on June 13 and released on June 14, 2011. Japan's cabinet approved a draft law to help Tokyo Electric Power pay billions of dollars in compensation to its radiation refugees, kicking off lawmaker wrangling that may take weeks to decide the fate of Asia's largest utility.

  12. Reuters Pictures - A steel tank, to be used to store radioactive wastewater, is lifted onto a trailer before its transfer to Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima prefecture, June 5, 2011, in this handout photo released by TEPCO on June 10, 2011.

  13. Reuters Pictures - Workers are seen behind local exhauster of the Rest Area of former Emergency Response Measure Room at Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima prefecture, June 9, 2011, in this handout photo released by TEPCO on June 10, 2011.

  14. Reuters Pictures - Workers for Toshiba rests inside the Toshiba Rest Area at Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima prefecture, May 15, 2011, in this handout photo released by TEPCO on June 10, 2011.

  15. A resident, evacuated from Namie town, right, undergoes a screening test for possible nuclear radiation after a brief visit to her home in the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, in Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Minami Soma was among the worst-affected when a tsunami that followed a magnitude-9 earthquake knocked out power at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, sending three reactors into meltdown and causing radiation to leak ever since. About 80 percent of the city is within a 30-kilometer restriction zone around the plant, while 4,100 households lived in a full evacuation zone set up by the government within 20 kilometers of the plant. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)

  16. Reuters Pictures - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko (L) meets with Goshi Hosono, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan, to discuss the Fukushima reactor situation at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, Maryland, June 10, 2011.

  17. Getty Images - People march in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti nuclear demonstration in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  18. Getty Images - Japanese youth wearing banners with portraints of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) protest during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  19. Getty Images A woman attends at an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  20. Getty Images – Policemen try to control people marching in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti nuclear demonstration in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  21. Getty Images - Clad in an anti-nuclear scarf, a dog attends an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  22. Getty Images Pro-nuclear power activists (background) denounce people marching in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo on June 11, 2011. Thousands of people staged anti-nuclear rallies and demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.

  23. Getty Images - SENDAI, JAPAN - JUNE 13: Debris is scattered, three months and two days after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on June 13, 2011 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear on outbreak of virus infectious disease are mounting due to the humid rainy season on the corner and delay of the clearing the debris.

  24. Miyuki Saito, 47, who lost her mother and older brother in the earthquake and tsunami, digs to collect plants from what remains of her parents' garden, three months and two days after the disaster, on June 13, 2011 in Natori, Miyagi, Japan

  25. Getty Images - OTSUCHI, JAPAN - JUNE 12: Hideko Zaitsu, 54, is seen at the classroom at Ando Elementary School, where seven families and two high school students take shelter while the school is used as an evacuation center on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear of infectious disease outbreak is mounting due to the humid rainy season and delay of the debris clearing.

  26. Vehicles drive through the tsunami-hit area, three months and two days after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on June 13, 2011 in Natori, Miyagi, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal in the aftermath of the disaster and the problems affecting the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Authorities are preparing for an increased risk of viral and infectious disease as delays in the clearing the debris combine with the arrival of Japan's humid, rainy season. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  27. Kaisei Kubota and his grandmother Yae pray for victims in an area devastated by a tsunami in Miyako, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Saturday June 11. Kaisei's father, a voluntary firefighter manning a water gate of a coastal levee, was killed after being swept away by a tsunami on March 11. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)

  28. A man walks through the debris as the Japanese national flag flies on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  29. Debris is scattered on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  30. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan attends the Lower House special committee on reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo June 14, 2011. Japan's cabinet approved a draft law to help Tokyo Electric Power pay billions of dollars in compensation to its radiation refugees, kicking off lawmaker wrangling that may take weeks to decide the fate of Asia's largest utility. However, Kan's track record in winning lawmaker approval for his post-quake policies suggest a bitter parliamentary battle will ensue. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

  31. People sit on the ground amongst the debris on June 11, 2011 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

  32. Sakiko Yamaguchi (left), 47, takes shelter with her son Maya Yamaguchi, at the back of her car in a parking area at Ando Elementary School used as an evacuation center on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  33. Children pick up donated stationery during an event organized by volunteers on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  34. The remaining destroyed buildings stand in the tsunami-hit area on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  35. After losing both his tofu-making business and their home in Japan's March tsunami, Koichi Aizawa and his wife Tomoko have been living in a shelter housed in a junior high school in Miyako, Japan, for the last three months. They are like nearly 90,000 people who remain in shelters after being displaced by the March tsunami, with another 12,100 living in temporary houses, according to Japanese media, which cited statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. - Jim Seida / msnbc.com

  36. Debris is scattered, three months and two days after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on June 13, 2011 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

  37. Jim Seida / msnbc.com "Many of the people who were working here and in this area died," says Tsutomu Abe while taking a beak from repairing roads in Kitagamigawa, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Abe, 35, is from Tome city, about 20 kilometers inland than Kitagamigawa, and says his house was not affected and that all of his family and friends are safe.

  38. A local fisherman clear debris on June 11, 2011 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  39. Heavy machinery is used to clear the debris, three months and two days after the Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake And Tsunami on June 13, 2011 in Natori, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

  40. Kyle Drubek / for msnbc.com   Teruo Kano slowly pushes washed up brush and roots through his garden and past cars gathered from the surrounding rice fields.

  41. A man looks at the remaining frame of the destroyed Minamisanriku City Hall Disaster Prevention Center on June 11, 2011 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

  42. Jim Seida / msnbc.com "I wasn't scared," says fisherman Kimio Sata, seen here with his wife Tomie Sato, standing in what used to be the bedroom of their Kitakami home on Sunday, June 5. When the tsunami siren sounded, Kimio got in his fishing boat and headed out to sea. "That's what we do here to protect the boat," Kimio says, "we're fishermen."

  43. Residents, evacuated from the 20-kilometer exclusion zone around Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, including Nao Yoshida, center, lit candles during an event marking three months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Minami Soma was among the worst-affected when a tsunami that followed a magnitude-9 earthquake knocked out power at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, sending three reactors into meltdown and causing radiation to leak ever since. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg)

  44. Kyle Drubek for msnbc.com Riyo Takeda (right) and Yuna Sato share a sad moment over a lost toy. In between is Riyo's mother Mai Takeda. They were gathered for a class that covered nutrition, sanitation and also personal consultations for seven mothers and their children.

  45. Jim Seida / msnbc.com - After the wave: Cafe serves up healing for Japan's tsunami survivors Two-year-old Yua Ogata plays in the front room of the Cha No Ki Cafe (Tea Tree Cafe) in Kesennuma City, Japan, June 8, 2011.

  46. Tomoyuki Kaya / EPA - Women buy vegetables produced in Fukushima at the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan on May 24. Fukushima's vegetables are sold and promoted in Japan as being safe amid fear of nuclear contamination.

  47. Getty Images - OTSUCHI, JAPAN - JUNE 12: People shop for groceries at a mobile food market, temporarily opened by 'JOIS' supermarket, on June 12, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan. Japanese government has been struggling to deal with the earthquake and tsunami as well as the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The fear of infectious disease outbreak is mounting due to the humid rainy season and delay of the debris clearing.

  48. Kyle Drubek for msnbc.com Ryoko Konno, left, and her husband, Michio, are earning about $100 a day collecting tsunami debris and barely making ends meet. Michio Konno, 63, was working as a maritime engineer and Ryoko, 58, was staying home and minding two grandchildren when the earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, destroying most of the town’s homes and businesses. They ended up in an emergency shelter, but left after a short stay to move in with a relative. Later, they moved into an apartment in another town.  Now they are caught in a Catch-22 faced by many tsunami survivors along Japan’s northeastern coast. Leaving emergency shelters for temporary housing means cutting the financial lifeline provided by the government, including meals, utilities and access to other resources and services provided through the shelters to help them through these difficult days. Typically, it also means buying new furniture and appliances to replace those lost to the waves.  “It’s impossible to live on what we are making here right now. We can only just barely pay our rent,” Ryoko Konno said on a tea break from her cleanup duties late Wednesday. “If we were in an evacuation center, it would be free – electricity, food -- everything supplied. … Once you leave (the shelter), you’re out. We would have liked to have stayed, but we couldn’t.” 

  49. Koya Takahashi, 28, and his wife, Megumi, 27, hold their 3-month-old son, Nagato, outside Megumi's parents' home in Minamisanriku, Japan, on Monday. - Jim Seida / msnbc.com The hopes of Koya Takahashi for his son, Nagato, are understandable given all that the child has endured in his first few tumultuous months of life.  - Koya’s wife, Megumi, was due to deliver the couple’s first child on March 11, the day a 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a tsunami that ripped through her hometown of Minamisanriku. Though the couple’s home was on a hill and was spared, because of her delicate condition they were in no way out of danger.  She prayed the baby would stay inside her belly a little longer since all of the roads to her home were blocked by tsunami debris.  The next day, the military flew Megumi, 27, to a Red Cross hospital in the nearby city of Ishinomaki. There, she sat in a chair for five days before going into labor. Though the petite Megumi had wanted a C-section due to the size of her baby -- 9.5 pounds – the operating room was jammed with the tsunami wounded so she went through 25 hours of natural childbirth instead.  Throughout her ordeal, the hospital was in chaos, as more wounded and other pregnant women were rushed in, including one whose baby was crowning.  - “It was full of people and more and more people came in,” said Koya, 28. “People were covered in mud and blood. They put a blue tarp on the floor. People were sleeping there with blankets.”  - Nagato Takahashi was born healthy, but his parents and others in the devastated areas of northeastern Japan are now weathering another kind of storm: raising their infants in a disaster zone. 

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