Members of the Japan Self Defence force walk through the snow-covered ruins of Kamaishi Iwate Prefecture days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 16 2011.

2011年3月16日，日本岩手县釜石市，在该地区被里氏9.0级地震及海啸摧毁后数天，日本自卫队员们走过白雪覆盖的废墟。

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Members of the Japan Self Defence force walk through the snow-covered ruins of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 16, 2011.

2011年3月16日，岩手县釜石市，在该地区被里氏9.0级地震和海啸摧毁后数天，日本自卫队员行走在白雪覆盖的废墟中。

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In one particularly shocking incident, Japan's self-defence force discovered 128 elderly people abandoned by medical staff at a hospital six miles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

在一起今人震惊的事件中，自卫队员发现有128名老人被医务人员遗弃在距离出事的福岛第一核电站六英里的医院里。

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Around the perimeter of the property, members of the self-defence force have taken up positions at five-metre intervals.

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Nowhere more so than in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, where the marines share a large coastal base with Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force.

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In January, when the third of their commanders in as many months was bundled into a vehicle by an armed gang, hundreds of men, and some women, joined the self-defence force.

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