A Buddha statue stands tilted in the midst of the destroyed tombstones as a tsunami-driven train car is seen behind at a graveyard in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, 13 April 2011. More than 27,000 people have been killed or gone missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the region on 11 March. The death toll is expected to rise as the search and recovery operations for the bodies continue. Some 15,000 survivors are still living in the evacuation centers as a series of aftershocks keep rocking the country. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
A woman looks on as her family gathers around a grave to place offerings for their immediate family members who have been killed by tsunami at a temporary mass grave in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, 13 April 2011. More than 27,000 people have been killed or gone missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the region on 11 March. The death toll is expected to rise as the search and recovery operations for the bodies continue. Some 15,000 survivors are still living in the evacuation centers as a series of aftershocks keep rocking the country. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
President of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Masataka Shimizu (right) speaks to the press at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, 13 April 2011. Shimizu met the press for the first time at the company's headquarters since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami damaged the company's Fukushima nuclear power plant. EPA/EVERETT KENNEDY BROWN
A family gathers around a grave as they place offerings for their immediate family members who have been killed by tsunami at a temporary mass grave in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, 13 April 2011. More than 27,000 people have been killed or gone missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the region on 11 March. The death toll is expected to rise as the search and recovery operations for the bodies continue. Some 15,000 survivors are still living in the evacuation centers as a series of aftershocks keep rocking the country. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
Young boys play at a school gymnasium used as an evacuation center in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, 13 April 2011. More than 27,000 people have been killed or gone missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the region on 11 March. The death toll is expected to rise as the search and recovery operations for the bodies continue. Some 15,000 survivors are still living in the evacuation centers as a series of aftershocks keep rocking the country. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
Junka Yamada, 4, a Filipino-Japanese national plays inside boarding area on its way back to the Philipines for vacation at the Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan on 13 April 2011.The Philippine government said it would evacuate at least 2,000 of its citizens living within a 100-kilometre radius of a damaged nuclear power plant as Japan raised the nuclear accident level to 7, the worst on an international scale.There were more than 300,000 Filipinos working and living in Japan a few hundred Filipinos voluntarily left Japan immediately aftervthe earthquake and tsunami, but thousands more opted to stay behind due to lack of employment opportunities in the Philippines. The official death toll from the March 11 disaster stood at 12,915 with 14,921 people listed as missing, Japan‘s National Police Agency said. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
Filipino Maru Kurusawa, 15, son of a Japanese national, eats his meal aboard a Philippine Airlines on his way back to the Philipines, over the Pacific Ocean 13 April 2011. The Philippine government said it would evacuate at least 2,000 of its citizens living within a 100-kilometre radius of a damaged nuclear power plant as Japan raised the nuclear accident level to 7, the worst on an international scale.There were more than 300,000 Filipinos working and living in Japan a few hundred Filipinos voluntarily left Japan immediately aftervthe earthquake and tsunami, but thousands more opted to stay behinddue to lack of employment opportunities in the Philippines. The official death toll from the March 11 disaster stood at 12,915 with 14,921 people listed as missing, Japan‘s National Police Agency said. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
A family prays for their immediate family members who have been killed by tsunami at a temporary mass grave in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, 13 April 2011. More than 27,000 people have been killed or gone missing after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the region on 11 March. The death toll is expected to rise as the search and recovery operations for the bodies continue. Some 15,000 survivors are still living in the evacuation centers as a series of aftershocks keep rocking the country. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
Filipino and Japanese nationals wait inside boarding area on its way back to the Philipines at the Narita airport in Tokyo, Japan 13 April 2011.The Philippine government said it would evacuate at least 2,000 of its citizens living within a 100-kilometre radius of a damaged nuclear power plant as Japan raised the nuclear accident level to 7, the worst on an international scale.There were more than 300,000 Filipinos working and living in Japan a few hundred Filipinos voluntarily left Japan immediately aftervthe earthquake and tsunami, but thousands more opted to stay behinddue to lack of employment opportunities in the Philippines. The official death toll from the March 11 disaster stood at 12,915 with 14,921 people listed as missing, Japan‘s National Police Agency said. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
