A power shovel removes debris from the March 11 tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012. It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's northeastern coast, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)