Two weeks after the disaster: 311 Japan Earthquake through a Black Lens 5

Two weeks on, it is becoming clear that the massive earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan will be the world's most expensive natural disaster, with the Japanese government estimating direct damages of as high as US$310 billion.Ten thousand deaths have been confirmed to date, with a further 17,000 people missing.At the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster zone, two workers received radiation exposures in excess of 10,000 times permitted levels and suffered radioactive skin burns.Earthquake survivors return home to gather what they can find, mourn their losses, and try to find some semblance of normalcy in lives that have been torn apart.