02 March 2012
Ishinomaki, Migayi, Japan
Akira Sugawara (56), a security guard, walks through a yard where cars salvaged from the 2011 tsunami are piled, waiting for owners to claim them.
A year after the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated large areas of northeastern Japan, thousands of people remained without homes, and the Japanese government was still struggling to dispose of rubble and help rebuild livelihoods.
