Police officers walk past a pine tree which survived the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, during an operation searching for bodies, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, March 9, 2012. It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century. In the last 12 months, some progress has been made in rebuilding lives, but much remains unfinished. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)