TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 23, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (R), in which the building (front) for JR Rikuchu-Yamada Station has been removed. (Kyodo)