Photos: 2 years later: Rebuilding a tsunami-stricken Japan

2 years later: Rebuilding a tsunami-stricken Japan KESENNUMA, Japan - The piles of rubble left behind by the receding tsunami have largely gone, but two years after nature visited its fury, some stretches of Japan's battered northeast remain little more than ravaged wastelands. Where once stood mountains of detritus, the splintered remains of wooden homes and shattered lives, occasional new buildings have crept up and some houses have been repaired. But memories of the huge waves that swept away whole villages refuse to fade; children still have nightmares, families still mourn their lost, and parts of the coast remain stripped of life. Read the full story here here. Click on thumbnail to view (Photos: AFP)

The tsunami portrait project The 3.11 Portrait Project was conceived by photographer Nobuyuki Kobayashi who, with the help of hair and makeup artists and other volunteers, takes the portraits in Tohoku. Many of those involved have lost all of their family pictures in the March 11, 2011 disaster. Click on thumbnail to view (Photos: Reuters)

Protesters rally at TEPCO HQ on tsunami anniversary Anti-nuclear protesters Sunday gathered in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled power plant at Fukushima, a year to the day after the tsunami struck. Some 50 demonstrators chanted slogans demanding all nuclear plants be shut down and the nation's largest utility be broken up. Click on thumbnail to view (Photos: AFP)