Pictures of The Tsunami

(Eight months on from the earthquake and tsunami that laid waste to almost 600km (373 miles) of Japan's north-east coastline, much of the rubble has been cleared in towns like Minamisanriku, where more than 1,350 people were reported as missing or dead.)

 (Flattened buildings smolder in an aerial picture of the Japanese town of Yamada on Saturday, the day after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami hit the region. Hundreds of bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, and thousands remain missing.)

                                                (Tsunami Earthquake- Third Explosion)