Villagers carry relief goods in Minami Sanriku, the worst-hit area where almost 10,000 people have gone missing
Japanese home guard help survivors to safety in the flooded town of Minami Sanriku
A motorcyclist passes by an overturned fishing boat in Hachinohe, Aomori, northern Japan
At least a million households had gone without water since the quake, and food and gasoline were quickly running out across the coastal regions hit by the tsunami.
Alive: A woman is pulled from the rubble in the devastated city of Natori, Miyagi prefecture today
Incredibly patient: People queue for water in Sendai two days after the earthquake and tsunami struck
Devastation: Destroyed cars and houses hit by the tsunami and subsequent fire in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan
People walk through the rubble that will take months to sort out in Rikuzentakakata, Iwate Prefecture
A patient is evacuated from a destroyed hospital in Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture
A woman wrapped in a blanket stares shell-shocked at the damagae in Ishimaki City
A car sits on top of a small building in a destroyed neighborhood in Sendai
The wave from a tsunami crashes over a street in Miyako City in an incredible picture taken on Friday but only just released
A river bank in Sendai is destroyed beyond recognition following the tsunami
Indescribable force: The wave carried a ferry inland leaving perched on top of a house in Otsuchi
The size of the clear-up job is huge, as shown by this lone figure in among rubble piled high in Minamisanrikucho, Miyagi Prefecture
Men search through a rare standing store in house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture
Orderly queues are springing up all over Japan as people face a shortage of food, drinks and daily necessities - like this one in Shiogama
People queue up for food rations at a supermarket in Ogawara, Miyagi Prefecture
Shelves are bare in the suburbs of Tokyo, far from the quake's epicentre
A pile of burnt out vehicles that were ready to be exported are piled in disarray at a port at Tokai village in Ibaraki prefecture - and an aerial view of the devastation in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi
An old man is piggy-backed to safety after surviving the tsunami in Tagajo near Sendai, while in Otsuchicho in Iwate Prefecture, a grandmother minds a young child
A woman searching for her missing husband looks under an overturned truck after an earthquake and tsunami struck Minamisanriku
A convoy of emergency vehicles drive past rubble in Natory City
Members of Japanese Self-Defence Force prepare a convoy for search and rescue operations in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture
Flames and smoke rise from a petroleum refining plant next to a heating power station in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture