Nearly four years after north-eastern Japan's huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown on March nth 2011, more than 170,000 people are still stuck in temporary housing along the ravaged coast. One of them is Sumiko Yoshida, a woman in her 70s who lives with her husband in cramped, mouldy quarters in Ri-kuzentakata, a fishing port that was washed away by the tsunami. More than 1,750 people died there, including the Yosh-idas' son, Isao, a city official who was helping others to get to higher ground. With no place to call home and no butsudan (household altar) for her son, Mrs Yoshida says she cannot properly mourn him-a photograph on a makeshift table has to do. She has suppressed her grief for so long, she says, that the tears will not come.
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