A survivor of the recent Japan earthquake reads a list of other survivors in a shelter in Iwate Prefecture on March 13.

A lone vehicle passes a train overpass mangled by the recent earthquake in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on March 12.

Swaddled in blankets, evacuated tsunami survivors try to keep warm in a Japanese Red Cross hospital on March 13.

People search through debris at the Sendai airport on March 14, days after an earthquake-triggered tsunami left the Japanese city in ruins.

On March 13 rescue workers approach Hiromitsu Shinkawa, a 60-year-old man from Japan’s Minamisoma City who washed out to sea during the recent tsunami and spent days clinging to a piece of roofing.

Tsunami survivors embrace to celebrate being alive in the destroyed city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11.

A tsunami wave crashes over a street in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March 11

A mother tries to talk to her daughter, who has been isolated due to signs of radiation at a makeshift facility in Nihonmatsu, Japan, on March 14. The daughter is among people evacuated from the vicinity of Fukushima’s damaged nuclear plants.