With millions of people without electricity, thousands missing and warnings of an imminent second earthquake, the task for Japanese authorities is too daunting to imagine. Some 3,000 people have now been confirmed dead since last week’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami but officials believe the death toll could rise into the tens of thousands, with a further 2,000 bodies washing up on the shores of north-east Japan at 15th march 2011. Body wrapped in blue tarps were placed on stretchers lined up for the military and the increase in any panic buying started in Japan amid fears of a second earthquake and growing concern about nuclear leaks. More pictures and info after the break...
Squatting amid the ruins: A woman cooks for her family in front of their devastated house in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture.
While people are forced to wash their clothes by a river at Otsuchi, northeastern Japan
Swept away: A house drifts in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after being hit by the tsunami.
while an older survivor swaddles herself in blankets and gloves at makeshift shelter at Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture.
People carry the body of a victim through debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi, northern Japan
Precarious: A house perches on top of a bridge in Ishinomaki after being swept away by the tsunami.
Eerie: Cars drive along one of the few passable roads in the devastated Minamisanriku where 10,000 people are feared dead.
Vanished: An astounding aerial view of the tsunami-devastated town of Rikuzentakata shows the full scale of the damage. Very little remains.
Pictures released by NASA shows the Japanese city of Ishinomaki (left) after the tsunami and in 2008
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Water is dark blue, plant-covered land is red, exposed earth is tan, and the city is silver.
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Ship out of water: A boat dumped in the street in Hishonomaki, Miyagi, after being swept inshore by the tsunami.
Heart of the wasteland: Japanese survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami walk under umbrellas through the leveled city of Minamisanriku.
Ghost town: A once thriving industrial town off the coast in notheast Japan that has now been decimated by the tsunami wave that washed over the region.
A ship is seen perched on top of a house in the tsunami devastated remains of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture.
Grim: The Japanese army search for bodies in Higashimatsushima City, in Miyagi, the state where up to 10,000 people may have died.
Clean up: Police walk in file down a hillside today into a coastal town in northeast Japan that has been flattened by the tsunami wave
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