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A vessel still sits in a street of Kesennuma, Japan. The March 11 earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed most of the fishing fleet, ports, and fishing industry along the northeastern coast of Japan. Now radiation has become an issue with seafood from the region. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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A worker (left) at a fish market reacts in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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Prefectural government's employees monitor amount of radiation on the ground of an elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Japan Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa, on board the USS Ronald Reagan on Monday, thanked the U.S. for its aid after the March 11 tsunami that ravaged Japan, telling the Reagan crew, "The entire Japanese people are deeply moved." (Associated Press)
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A woman (center) and others pray at her missing parents' house, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Leaking radioactive water drains through the crack of a maintenance pit (right) into the ocean near the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan. Highly radioactive water was leaking into the ocean Saturday from a crack discovered at the nuclear power plant. (Associated Press via Kyodo News)
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A man walks Sunday over debris in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami to search for his house and belongings in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
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Highly radioactive water leaks through a crack in a maintenance pit (right) into the sea near the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in a photo released by the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the facility, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)
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Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force conduct a search operation for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Norimitsu Masuda)
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Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer holds a necklace made of ocean flotsam as he talks about how debris from Japan will wash ashore in Washington, as he sits at a Puget Sound beach Wednesday, March 30, 2011, in Seattle. Ebbesmeyer, who has traced Nike sneakers, rubber bath toys and hockey gloves spilled from Asian shipping containers over the decades, expects the first items of flotsam from Japan's tsunamis and earthquake to hit West Coast beaches in a year. He says derelict fishing vessels may show up first, while other items like pieces from wooden homes and rubber survey stakes may take two to three years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, center, walks past the rubble in front of municipal building Saturday, April 2, 2011, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this Friday, April 1, 2011, photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., workers for the company experimentally spray adhesive synthetic resin over the ground at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. TEPCO expects the resin spraying to prevent dust exposed to radiation materials from spreading out of the premises. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Japan-based Hong Kong singer Agnes Chan performs during the charity concert "Artistes 311 Love Beyond Borders" in Hong Kong Friday, April 1, 2011. Hong Kong entertainment industry staged the concert to raise funds for victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speak about nuclear power safety after their meeting in Tokyo on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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A replica of the 4.5-ton atomic bomb Fat Man is at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, western Japan. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this March 28, 2011 file photo, new vehicles damaged by the March 11 tsunami waters sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A shortage of auto parts and other components after Japan's earthquake has stirred unease about two pillars of manufacturing: the country's role as a crucial link in the global supply chain and "just in time" production. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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The aftermath of Japan's devastation is on display at a Suzuki company lot, where ravaged vehicles are lined up. The nation has signaled it will finance the recovery by issuing bonds. (Associated Press)
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Ai Miyazato of Japan, watches a practice putt on the 10th hole during the pro-am round of the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wednesday, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Residents search for anything worth keeping Wednesday in the earthquake- and tsunami-devastated town of Kesennuma in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
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'THIS NIGHTMARE': Nearly three weeks of desperation and depravation after have given some of the earthquake and tsunami survivors the courage to visit Kesennuma, Japan. Just a month ago, the town was home to 70,000 people including fishermen, teachers, mechanics and clothing makers. (Associated Press)
