In the Greater Tokyo area, there is not a lot of visible difference since the tsunami. A lot of shops and restaurants have donation tins where you can give to the earthquake appeal. Friends have told me about damage that happened; for example, some older buildings in the Yokohama station area, and a ceiling collapsing in Kawasaki Muza. But to the casual observer walking around, there's no damage visible down this area.
One thing you will see a lot of, though, is 'saving electricity' notices.
Since power is now being conserved, a lot of businesses have this sort of sign displayed. Specific examples include:
-air conditioning off, or restricted to certain areas (for example, malls with uncooled corridors but cooled shops, trains where the air con was only switched on after the trains got crowded; most of the airport - a huge, airy space which would no doubt take a lot of power to cool - didn't have air con)
-escalators not running, especially where there is more than one escalator for each direction
-hand dryers disabled in bathrooms
-sports matches finishing earlier
-modified train timetables
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