"Planting the seed. (Church is in the background - see the cross.)"

"This is the pile the lady said had a lot of corpses in it."

"JSDF guys clearing wires. The are on the short remaining pile of debris that needs to be cleared to free the people I wrote about (who still have operable cars)."

"Pastor and my brother-in-law look over the damage from an improvised path between gullies."

"A Japan Self Defense Force jeep drives past a local soup kitchen. There, people rigged a hose to carry water from a stream to a salvaged bathtub, and built a fire under it to get hot water.The ingenuity level of local leaders varies."