#1 Click this link to see Blog page --> 03/12/2011

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/22/2012 #2

The massive March 11th tsunami that leveled buildings and flattened towns along a wide swathe of northern Japan, including Ofunato, also took a more subtle toll, with hundreds of thousands of photographs lost to the churning waters. But now these memories are slowly making their way back to their owners, thanks to the painstaking efforts of a team that cleans them of mud, dirt and oil.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/11/2012 #5

Two-year-old Kakeru Ishikawa prays with his aunt Nobuko Arakawa March 10th, 2012, at the gravesite of five of his relatives all killed when their home was swept away by the tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The 9.0 earthquake struck offshore on March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 p.m. local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten meters in height, which engulfed large parts of northeastern Japan and damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis in decades. The number of dead and missing numbered more than 25,000 people. On the eve of the one year anniversary of the disaster, the affected areas have been inundated with families, friends and relatives. The limited number of hotels in the area are full to capacity with world media and people from across the country arriving to take part in ceremonies paying tribute to the many people who lost their lives.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2012 #3

A man looks at paper lanterns created at a memorial for the victims of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture, a day before the one year anniversary of the disaster.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/11/2013 #3

Yuzo Mihara, left, and his wife, Yuko, stand on a deserted street in Namie, Japan, on Feb. 22nd. The town is in the Fukushima nuclear disaster exclusion zone. Following the March 11th, 2011, earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, tens of thousands of people lost their homes, and many are still living in temporary housing. Most former Namie residents hope to eventually go back to their homes, but they are allowed to return home for only a few hours to minimize radiation exposure.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2013 #3

Sendai, Japan • Sayoko Shiroishi throws a bouquet of flowers into the ocean to commemorate her friends who died during the Japan earthquake and tsunami on the second anniversary of the event at a coast damaged by the disaster in Sendai.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/13/2013 #4

Wrecked vehicles remain in a field of reeds in Namie, Japan, two years after the March 11th, 2011, tsunami and earthquake.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/07/2013 #1

A Coca-Cola vending machine brought inland by the March 2011 tsunami in eastern Japan is seen in an abandoned rice field inside the exclusion zone near the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant on Sept. 21st.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2014 #1

Koichi Yamada offers a prayer for his friend Kenichi Sato, who was killed by the 2011 tsunami, at Sato’s destroyed car in the tsunami-devastated Ukedo area of Namie, in northern Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, three miles north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on March 11th, 2011, followed by a tsunami that triggered the nation’s worst nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.

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#10 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2015 #3

School children wearing padded hoods to protect them from falling debris sit on running tracks during an earthquake simulation exercise at an elementary school in Tokyo, March 11th, 2015. The school in one of the central wards in Tokyo held an annual evacuation drill to prepare for earthquakes, on the fourth anniversary of the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis.

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2016 #3

A visitor prays in front of candles in Tokyo to mourn the March 11th, 2011, tsunami and earthquake victims. Friday is the five-year anniversary of the disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis.

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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/11/2018 #1

People release paper lanterns into the air during the Tsunan Sky Lantern event. About 2,000 lanterns were released at the event which began in commemoration of victims of the earthquake that hit the region March 12th, 2011.

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/13/2021 #3

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, right, and Empress Masako bow in front of the altar for victims of the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the national memorial service in Tokyo, Thursday, March 11th, 2021. Japan is marking the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with many survivors’ lives are still on hold.

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#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/11/2022 #3

Minamisanriku, Japan • Police search for remains of people still missing after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, on the eve of the 11th anniversary.

Seems an awfully long time to be still searching. 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami #Earthquake2011TohokuJapan MjL

#15 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/11/2022 #11

In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. #Earthquake2011Tohoku

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#16 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 03/13/2022 #13

In 2011, the estimated death toll from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami climbed past 10,000 as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns while hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find food and water. #Earthquake2011Tohoku

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#17 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2023 #1

Seoul, South Korea • Environmental activists march during a rally marking the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. They denounced Japan’s planned release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.

I have a specific mental image of the difference between “march” and “walk”. Maybe I’m being too picky but words have meaning. 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami #Earthquake2011TohokuJapan MjL

#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/13/2025 #2

Tokyo, Japan • People pray as they take part in a minute’s silence to remember the victims on the 14th anniversary of the 2011 Tōhoku, tsunami and nuclear disaster, in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo.

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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/12/2026 #3

Miyako City, Japan • People pray on the seawall on the 15th anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster in which about 20,000 people died.

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