1st anniversary of 2011 Japanese tsunami and earthquake

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Surveying existing damageA prayer for victimsEmperor and Empress pay respectsA makeshift altarPraying for schoolchildrenPraying for a lost homeTokyo BayAnti-nuclear protesters in BerlinAnti-nuclear protesters in Neckarwestheim, GermanyAnti-nuclear protesters in Brussels, BelgiumTaiwanese boy protests nuclear energy

Nobuo Watanabe, right, and his wife, Seiko, with their dog look at a breakwater badly damaged by the last year's earthquake and tsunami in Minamisanriku, Japan, on Sunday. People across Japan prayed and stood in silence on Sunday to remember the massive disaster that struck the nation one year ago, killing more than 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

Surveying existing damage

( Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press )

Nobuo Watanabe, right, and his wife, Seiko, with their dog look at a breakwater badly damaged by the last year's earthquake and tsunami in Minamisanriku, Japan, on Sunday. People across Japan prayed and stood in silence on Sunday to remember the massive disaster that struck the nation one year ago, killing more than 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

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