2 years already

It has been two years already since the 3/11 earthquake/tsunami hit Japan. While economically as a whole, Japan may have seemed to recovered to pre-disaster standards, part of the disaster-struck areas are still struggling to rebuild themselves. For those small towns that lost most of their population, it will be a challenge to attract people back to rebuild those towns.

The road to recovery is long. The shrinking population, the pull of big cities, coupled with administrative red tape doesn't help much.