1st anniversary of 2011 Japanese tsunami and earthquake
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
Fifty-eight-year-old Hiroko Oyama, right, and her granddaughter play with bubbles as they pray for victims from the Okawa elementary school as part of the March 11,2011, disaster’s first anniversary in Ishinomaki, Japan. (Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse)
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People gather to pray for 74 elementary schoolchildren and 10 teachers who lost their lives in the March 11, 2011,
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A couple pray where their home was standing before the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, during the first anniversary of the disaster in Onagawa, Japan. (Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse)
A girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of
Anti-nuclear protesters in Berlin hold hands and stand in a circle Sunday as they observe a minute of silence during a rally marking the first anniversary of
Opponents of nuclear energy demonstrate with banners and flags as they march toward the nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, on Sunday. Organizers said more than 5,000 people attended the protest, part of a series of anti-nuclear demonstrations around the world held on the first anniversary of the deadly Japan earthquake and ensuing Fukushima nuclear meltdown. (Jan-Philipp Strobel / EPA)
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People carry flags and banners as they demonstrate against nuclear energy in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday, the first anniversary of the magnitude 9 Japan quake and ensuing Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. The meltdown in Japan was the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl accident in Ukraine. (Julien Warnand / EPA)
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