Returning to life

Published April 7, 2011
A chef serves fatty tuna and pickles rolls for customers at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo. -AP
A chef serves fatty tuna and pickles rolls for customers at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo. -AP
A shopper looks at vegetables for sale, grown in Ibaraki, Chiba, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures north of the Japanese capital, an area affected by the nuclear crisis to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, at Tokyo's Daimaru department store. -AFP Photo
A shopper looks at vegetables for sale, grown in Ibaraki, Chiba, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures north of the Japanese capital, an area affected by the nuclear crisis to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, at Tokyo's Daimaru department store. -AFP Photo
Japanese women sort through freshly caught fish at the Hirakata fish market in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki prefecture. Levels of radioactive iodine and caesium in seawater immediately outside the plant have spiked, raising fears over marine life in a country whose diet depends heavily on seafood. -AFP Photo
Japanese women sort through freshly caught fish at the Hirakata fish market in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki prefecture. Levels of radioactive iodine and caesium in seawater immediately outside the plant have spiked, raising fears over marine life in a country whose diet depends heavily on seafood. -AFP Photo
Children attend a ceremony on their first day of school at Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan. -Reuters Photo
Children attend a ceremony on their first day of school at Shimizu elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan. -Reuters Photo
Japanese figure skating Olympic gold medallist Shizuka Arakawa (R), who grew up in Sendai, signs autographs for tsunami-effected evacuees as she visits a shelter in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture. -AFP Photo
Japanese figure skating Olympic gold medallist Shizuka Arakawa (R), who grew up in Sendai, signs autographs for tsunami-effected evacuees as she visits a shelter in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture. -AFP Photo
Evacuees take a footbath at a shelter in in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. -AP Photo
Evacuees take a footbath at a shelter in in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. -AP Photo
A girl smiles on her first day of school at the Shimizu Elementary School in Fukushima, northern Japan.
A girl smiles on her first day of school at the Shimizu Elementary School in Fukushima, northern Japan.
Ofunato middle school basketball players practice with balls at an evacuation center in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. -AP Photo
Ofunato middle school basketball players practice with balls at an evacuation center in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. -AP Photo

Rattled by radiation concerns after the devastating tsunami and earthquake of March 11, schools and businesses resume in Japan in a bid to return to normal life.

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