Ten Years Ago: The Fukushima Disaster
Desk Report
Published: 11 Mar 2021, 06:41 pm
A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the area, March 11, 2011. Photo: Collected from Reuters
Houses are swept by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan, March 11.Photo: Collected from Reuters
Whirlpools are seen following a tsunami and earthquake in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, March 11. Photo: Collected from Reuters
Fires burn in the port area of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture following an earthquake in northeastern Japan, March 11. Photo: Collected from Reuters
A picture taken from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter shows the central part of the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, March 12, a day after it was flattened by a massive tsunami following Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. Photo: Collected from Reuters
A damaged car is seen in a cemetery at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Watari, Miyagi prefecture, April 22. Photo: Collected from Reuters
Survivors react after collecting their belongings at their destroyed house in a village hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, March 17. Photo: Collected from Reuters
A man, carrying belongings salvaged from his ruined house, stands under a ship brought inland by the tsunami in Kesennuma town, Miyagi prefecture more than two weeks after the area was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami March 27. Photo: Collected from Reuters
A woman looks at the damage caused by a tsunami and an earthquake in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, March 13. Photo: Collected from Reuters
The body of a female patient lies dead in the hallways of a hospital in Minamisanriku town on March 14. Photo: Collected from Reuters
Japan is paying tribute to the nearly 20,000 victims of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast of the country 10 years ago, destroying towns and triggering the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
People, some carrying bouquets, walked to the coast or graves on Thursday to pray for relatives and friends washed away by the tsunami.