10 March 2012
Minamisanriku, Miyagi, Japan
Mihaya Sato (15) cries on the shoulder of a school friend at the first graduation ceremony after the tsunami, at the Shizukawa Junior High School, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi—one of the worst-hit prefectures.
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.
