3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

IWAKI, Japan - Toshio Kumaki, who lost some of his acquaintances in the March 11, 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, prays toward the sea on the coast of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2014, three years after the disaster.

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