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In this combo of two photos, people walk along Prefectural Highway 30 sandwiched by floodwaters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 24, 2011, after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area, top, and the same area, bottom, with an earth mover goes on reconstruction work as photographed on June 4, 2011. A strong earthquake hit hit Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday, but there were not any immediate reports of damage.
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Japan's Kozue Ando and Japan's Mizuho Sakaguchi celebrate as disappointed German players walk off the pitch after Japan won the quarterfinal match 1-0 at the Women’s Soccer World Cup in Wolfsburg, Germany on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Japan's Karina Maruyama, 3rd left, celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during extra time of the quarterfinal match between Germany and Japan at the Women’s Soccer World Cup in Wolfsburg, Germany, Saturday, July 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 1, 2011, workers inspect equipments inside the cesium absorption tower, part of the radioactive water processing facilities at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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** FILE ** In this May 31, 2011, photo released Saturday, June 4, 2011, by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), a worker climbs scaffoldings set up around the decontamination device, having functions of nuclide adsorption and coagulation settling in the newly built radioactive water processing facilities at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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A fire that engulfed most of Otsuchi, Japan, burned the bottoms of trees around the Ko-tsuchi temple but didn't reach these stone tablets or the main wooden shrine. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (right) talks with Katsuya Okada, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, at a meeting of the party's members of parliament on Thursday, June 2, 2011, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Joseph Calleja, performing as Egardo during a dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" this year, and Anna Netrebko decided just days before a scheduled Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan that they would not make the trip, citing safety concerns.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soprano Anna Netrebko, who said she had friends who died of cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986, has dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan that begins June 4. Tenor Joseph Calleja (below) also cited concerns about radiation from the stricken nuclear power station north of Tokyo for not making the trip.
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Sony Corp., Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics, has felt the effects of the recent earthquake and tsunami. The company reported a $3.2 billion loss for the year that ended March 31 the company's biggest net loss in 16 years. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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This photo from May 6, 2011, shows the reactor buildings of Unit 1 (left) and 2 at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has started winning public support while trying to guide the nation through its post-tsunami crisis. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS/KYODO NEWS A villager pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit to her house located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, last Tuesday.
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A Japanese woman pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit — her first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami — to her home in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around the troubled nuclear plant for an hour's visit to gather belongings.
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Takayuki Kato, performing as Sanyutei Kyoraku, entertains during a fundraiser for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at Culture Hall in Ichinoseki in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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A villager is helped to wear protective gloves at a gymnasium for a brief visit to their houses located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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In this May 3 photo, people wearing rubber boots walk through a flooded street at high tide after helping residents clean up debris in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The area in this part of the city sunk nearly 2 feet 7 inches following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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This April 10 image taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., shows the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's nuclear safety agency said workers entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at the nuclear complex for the first time Thursday after the March 11 earthquake. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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** FILE ** Mail carrier Kenjiro Ishimori rides a motorcycle after delivering mails at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
