The tsunami-hit zone of Minami-Soma town, in Tohoku, Japan. Minami-Soma was hit by the tsunami on March 11th 2011.
Buddhist priest Taiou Kaneda (shaved head, grey clothes) prays at a temporary shrine made for the residents of a home swept away by the March 2011 tsunami, near the beach, in Minami-Soma town, Japan, on Sunday 5th February 2012. .Kaneda-san was at the beach after holding an afternoon programme at the local temple that he organises and calls "Cafe De Monk" - the programme is aimed at helping the residents to relax and to discuss with visiting religious priests about the anxieties and fears they hold in the aftermath of the March 11th 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear town sits on the border of the 20km exclusion zone which is in place around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear residents in the area are now telling priests and monks that they see ghosts or apparitions- a sign that there is mounting anxiety and stress in the elderly residents as they deal with life in the aftermath of the triple disaster in which so many local residents lost their life.
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Location: Minami-Soma, Tohoku, Japan
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