Photos: Sifting through the remains of home after Japan’s quake

Kamihachi, Japan -- Meguni Sasaki reunites with her cousin, Kouno Takayaki, 41, who she hadn’t seen since the tsunami hit two weeks ago.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Kamihachi, Japan -- Meguni Sasaki, left, talks to her cousin, Kouno Takayaki, right, whom she hadn’t seen since the tsunami hit two weeks ago. She shows him some of the few items she has been able to recover from the family home after the tsunami swept it away.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Kamihachi, Japan -- “There is nothing left,” says Meguni Sasaki, as she scans the ground looking for remnants of her home, swept away by the tsunami. Sasaki and her husband Satoru Sasaki were not at home when the tsunami struck; their two daughters escaped with grandparents to a nearby mountain temple. The roof of another temple landed near their property, moved there by the giant wave.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

KamihachiI, Japan -- A photograph of daughter Yua Sasaki, 9, on a school field trip, and a bowl are some of the few possession Meguni Sasaki and her husband Satoru Sasaki were able to find after the tsunami destroyed their home and neighborhood. Satoru says photographs of his two daughters are all he is hoping to find.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)