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Japan: one month after the quake (16 images)

A barrage of aftershocks from the March 11 disaster in Japan continue to impact the already rattled victims, while members of the Ground Self-Defense Force continue recovery efforts in Miyagi prefecture.



Earthquake victims arrive at the closed former Kisai high school in Kazo, Saitama prefecture, on March 30, 2011. Futaba-cho of Fukushima prefecture near the earthquake temporarily moved their offices and escape facility to this high school. UPI/Keizo Mori
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Member of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Central Readiness Force(L) and Member of U.S. Marines "CBIRF" (Chemical Biological Incident Response Force) attend a decontamination exercise at the Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, Japan, on April 9, 2011. UPI/Keizo Mori
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People sort through relief supplies at a government building in Tokyo, Japan on March 29, 2011. Japan continues to struggle more than two weeks after a magnitude 9 earthquake and following tsunami struck Japan. The death toll has risen to over 10,000 dead with still thousands missing. UPI/Keizo Mori
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Tokyo residence watch as half of a city block is left in the dark during a rolling black out in the Shinjuku region of Tokya, March 29, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Co. implemented rolling blackout to conserve power in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident. UPI/Keizo Mori
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