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Astonishing pictures show how Japan is recovering just three months after tsunami
• Emily Allen via DailyMail.co.ukJust three months ago Japan was
plunged into chaos after a cataclysmic earthquake sent a merciless
tsunami crashing through towns and cities up and down the east coast.
The unforgiving tide of water obliterated tens of thousands of buildings, devouring almost anything in its path. Thousands of people died and hundreds of bodies have never been recovered.
The heart-breaking images of families desperately searching for loved ones amid the rubble of their homes sent shockwaves around the world.
Now, three months on, these images
show the Japanese people remain undaunted by the havoc nature has
wreaked on their homeland as step by step they rebuild their nation.
The pleasure boat ''Hamayuri'' washed up on the rooftop of an inn by tsunami and a building have so far been removed in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 6, top, and on June 3, bottom.
A Shinto shrine gate and surroundings in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture three days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the same spot on June 3
But
despite their progress, stark reminders of the work left to do means
the resilience of this Asian country is still being tested.
Headway in the clean-up has been made in the town of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture where the pleasure boat ''Hamayuri'', which was remarkably washed up on the rooftop of an inn, has been removed, along with a building shattered by the the wall of water.
Further down is an image of a Shinto
shrine gate in the town three days after the March 11 disaster.
The
same spot on June 3 which shows thousands of
tonnes of rubbish, which had lay smouldering in an almost
post-apolcalyptic landscape, has been cleared, roads re-laid and power
lines
restored.
Civilisation appears to have returned in Natori in Miyagi prefecture too. The first image shows a towering wall of ocean crashing through trees devastating homes and businesses lining the coast, tearing down power lines and drowning anything in its path.
A residential area being hit by the tsunami in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, top, and the same area, with only one house remaining on June 3, bottom
1 Comments in Response to Astonishing pictures show how Japan is recovering just three months after tsunami
Interesting.
But these are 9.0 tsunami pictures. Look up the earthquake pictures - the ones too far inland to be affected by the tsunami - and you will see that they are only pictures of a little over 6.0.
So, how do you get a 9.0 tsunami when the earthquake is only a little over 6.0?