To bolster a coastal fishing industry devastated by the March 2011 tsunami, the IRC is helping oyster farmers on Japan's Oshika peninsula establish businesses, including restaurants and markets where they can sell their oysters directly to customers.

The IRC's Shinko Tana presents a shovel and a snow blower -- gifts that represent a donation from the IRC and our partner AAR Japan -- to an official from the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Japan. Many of the coastal city's  tsunami survivors are spending the winter on snowier high ground.

Children at the Karakuwa elementary school in the tsunami-wrecked town of Kesennuma, Japan. The IRC and its partner Peace Winds Japan have helped equip the school with furniture and other items.

Children play on swings in tsunami-devastated Ishinomaki, Japan. In an instant, some 3,000 people disappeared when a 30-foot-high wall of water washed over the city on March 11. The International Rescue Commitee's partners are helping survivors in Ishinomaki and other hard-hit communities recover and rebuild.

The IRC funded road repairs so that people with disabilities could reach vocational skills programs at Asunaro Home, in the heights above tsunami-devastated Rikuzentakata.