Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13

Workers remove radiated soil and leaves from a forest in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on February 24. Many residents of Okuma, a village near the stricken plant, are angry about the government’s plan to dump some 30 million tonnes of radioactive debris raked up after the March 2011 nuclear disaster in a sprawling waste complex on their doorstep. Few believe Tokyo's assurances that the site will be cleaned up and shut down after 30 years