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Japan's Emperor and Empress attend a memorial in Tokyo to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country's living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation. IMAGES
People in Hisanohama, a coastal town in Fukushima, observe a minute's silence at 2.46 pm local time (0546 GMT), to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country's living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation. IMAGES
Tokyo, Mar 10 (EFE/EPA).- On the eve of the 10th anniversary, Japanese people on Wednesday remembered the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast of the country, a natural disaster that caused more than 18,000 deaths and triggered the nuclear crisis in Fukushima.On Mar. 11, 2011 a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, on the open Richter scale, and a subsequent tsunami devastated the Tohoku region of Japan and caused severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. According to the latest official figures, the damage is still affecting around 52,000 displaced people. (Camera: FRANCK ROBICHON). SHOT LIST: PAPER LANTERNS BEING LIT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE 2011 GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE IN TOKYO, JAPAN, ON THE EVE OF THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI.
Japan marks the day a deadly earthquake and tsunami killed some 20,000 people five years ago. Julie Noce reports.
Sendai, Japan, Mar 6 (EFE, (Camera: Antonio Hermosín).- The Arahama school in northeastern Japan served as a refuge to save the lives of 320 students, teachers and others from the tsunami that swept through the area in 2011. Today the building honors the victims and pays tribute to the school’s exemplary response to such a major catastrophe.Led by school officials, the students ran up the stairs to the roof of the four-story waterfront building after hearing the tsunami warning following the huge 9.1-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sendai on that fateful day nearly 10 years ago.FOOTAGE OF THE ARAHAMA SCHOOL IN SENDAI, HAPAN. SOUNDBITES OF CHIKAKO SHOUJI, SURVIVOR AND VOLUNTEER AT THE ARAHAMA SCHOOL:"After the tsunami alarm sounded, I picked up my mother, who was at my house, and then we drove to a shelter further inland. We narrowly escaped, because there was a lot of traffic on the road and it only took 10 minutes between the alarm sounded and the tsunami arrived." "I was born here, and when I was a child, my grandfather who had also always lived here, told me that tsunamis would never happen here even if there were earthquakes. I believed him."