1st anniversary of 2011 Japanese tsunami and earthquake

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)

Japanese Emperor Akihito, right, and Empress Michiko pay their respects before an altar during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake, in Tokyo on Sunday.  (Pool photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno / Agence France-Presse)

People gather to pray for 74 elementary schoolchildren and 10 teachers who lost their lives in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a memorial in front of the Okawa elementary school during the first year anniversary of the disaster in Ishinomaki, Japan.  (Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse)

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 Tokyo Bay to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

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 Japan’s massive earthquake and the ensuing Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the background, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, can be seen.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

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)

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)

A Taiwanese boy holds a placard during an anti-nuclear protest in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday. The demonstration marked the first anniversary of the deadly Japan quake and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster, and also was intended to urge the Taiwanese government to stop building a power plant in Gongliao on the island’s northern coast.  (David Chang / EPA)