The numbers are stunning: more than 16,000 dead; 3,300 missing; a reconstruction bill in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The coast guard still patrols Tohoku's waterways in search of bodies — now identifiable only by DNA. For survivors like Yukuhisa Ojima, progress takes place against a backdrop of unimaginable tragedy. He, like so many others, still mourns the loss of close relatives swept to their deaths on the afternoon of March 11.