Japan marks tsunami, nuclear tragedy 8 years on
People offer a minute of silence at 2.46pm – the exact moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck – for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the day of the eighth anniversary of the disaster that devastated northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. – EPA pic, March 11, 2019.
WITH flowers, silent prayers and tearful tributes, Japan today marked the eighth anniversary of a crippling earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left some 18,500 people dead or missing. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, lawmakers and family members who lost their loved ones in the disaster bowed their heads in prayer at a ceremony in Tokyo at 2.46pm – the exact moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck.
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