Progress & Recovery June 13 2011, 10:59pm via japanskiexperience.com

These incredible photos show the astonishing speed at which some of the worst affected areas in Japan are being cleaned up and rebuilt, just 3 months after the devastating tsunami which caused so much destruction.

A parking lot of a shopping centre filled with houses and debris in Otsuchi town, Iwate prefecture two days after the earthquake hit and the same area pictured on June 3

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Local residents walking through debris on a street in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to get water 48 hours after the disaster, top, and the same area on June 3 where a large tank and a damaged house on the left side of the street have been cleared away

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A ship swept away by the raging torrents lies among other debris on March 12, left, while a man on a bicycle pedals past a pedestrian on the same road June 4, 2011 in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, north-eastern Japan

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To read the article in full and see a lot more photos click here.