Great East Japan Earthquake
Five years since then Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture
March 3, 2016, Otsuchi-cho, Japan - Late spring has come to this community of temporary shelter, one of 48 built throughout Otsuchi-cho, Iwate prefecture A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami left 1,300 residents dead or missing in their wake on March 11, 2011. As the fifth anniversary of the nation's worst disaster nears, the scars still visible in the town remind people of the catastrophe. Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF-mis-