Mental care center for people affected by March 2011 disaster

Mental care center for people affected by March 2011 disaster

MORIOKA, Japan - Hisaki Miyadate (L), deputy governor of Iwate Prefecture, and Iwate Medical University President Akira Ogawa raise a signboard for a mental and emotional care facility for people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. The facility, set up in the university the same day, is intended to provide free counseling and other services.

Calligraphy expressing hope for reconstruction

Calligraphy expressing hope for reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Hisaki Miyadate (R), vice governor of Iwate Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster, holds a calligraphy work of Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto, at the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka on Nov. 8, 2011. The Japanese kanji character for ''kizuna'' (bond) represented in the work was chosen by the Buddhist priest as an expression of hope for reconstruction from the disaster.

Mental care center for people affected by March 2011 disaster

Mental care center for people affected by March 2011 disaster

MORIOKA, Japan - Hisaki Miyadate (L), deputy governor of Iwate Prefecture, and Iwate Medical University President Akira Ogawa raise a signboard for a mental and emotional care facility for people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. The facility, set up in the university the same day, is intended to provide free counseling and other services. (Kyodo)

Calligraphy expressing hope for reconstruction

Calligraphy expressing hope for reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - Hisaki Miyadate (R), vice governor of Iwate Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster, holds a calligraphy work of Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto, at the Iwate prefectural government office in Morioka on Nov. 8, 2011. The Japanese kanji character for ''kizuna'' (bond) represented in the work was chosen by the Buddhist priest as an expression of hope for reconstruction from the disaster. (Kyodo)