Japan: Minamisanriku a year later

Kei Sato carried his granddaughter Momoka on his back as his wife Hiroko, right, stood inside their temporary residence in Minamisanriku on Friday, March 2, 2012, nearly a year after the March 11 tsunami hit the northeastern Japanese town. Some 2,174 temporary housing units have been built in and around Minamisanriku, a fishing town, that sustained some of the heaviest damage from the tsunami. The town's ambitious reconstruction plan calls for rebuilding residential areas in surrounding hills, a difficult project that is estimated to take four or five years to complete.