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Cenotaph as high as tsunami built in northern Japan

NATORI, Japan - A cenotaph for people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011 is unveiled at a ceremony in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014. The cenotaph, dedicated to 944 victims in the area, stands 8.4 meters tall, the maximum height of the tsunami, and is likened to a fledgling plant.

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Police use radar to search for missing tsunami victims

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers (back) search for clues to missing people on a sandy beach in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, based on data sent from a ground-penetrating radar (foreground) on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011.

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Police look for missing tsunami victims in coastal zone

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Police officers comb a coastal area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in search of more than 1,000 missing people in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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Comedian Hazama starts marathon across quake-hit Tohoku

MORIOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama strikes a pose Aug. 11, 2014, at the starting point in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, of a 508-kilometer marathon through three prefectures -- Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima. A devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the region in March 2011.

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Comedian Hazama jogs ahead of marathon in Tohoku

MORIOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama jogs on Aug. 11, 2014,with elementary school children in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of a 508-kilometer marathon across three prefectures -- Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima. A devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the region in March 2011.

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Tohoku students to participate in Paris event

TOKYO, Japan - Students including Yurika Kishi (R), a sophomore at Fukushima National College of Technology, give a press conference on an promotional event in Paris for the 2011 disaster-hit Tohoku region at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Tokyo on July 11, 2014. Some 100 junior and senior high school students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures will take part in the Aug. 30-31 event.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.

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Event to thank U.S. for support after 3/11 disaster

NEW YORK, United States - "Morioka Sansa Odori," a traditional dance in Iwate Prefecture's Morioka City, is performed Aug. 26, 2013, at a reception held by the prefecture in New York to thank the United States for its help after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which devastated northeastern Japan.

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Soldiers in Mogadishu

TOKYO, Japan - A truck carrying armed soldiers drives along a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Aug. 11, 2011. Local politicians take armed soldiers with them whenever they travel for security purposes.

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Tsunami landmark in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2011, shows the remains of a building housing the municipal government's disaster prevention headquarters in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was damaged by the March 11 tsunami. People continue to visit the building, which became a symbol of the tsunami damage, to commemorate the victims of the disaster.

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker.

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T-shirt of Hearn's book introducing word 'tsunami

MATSUE, Japan - Hisao Nakamura, president of Nakamura Chaho Corp., holds a T-shirt carrying an image of Lafcadio Hearn's 1897 book that introduced the word ''tsunami'' to the world, in Matsue, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The T-shirt project is aimed at supporting victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Reptile Cafe/Yokohama Subtropical Teahouse

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A female junior high school student watches a lizard at Reptile Cafe/Yokohama Subtropical Teahouse, which opened in July 2011, in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 11, 2011.

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Major leaguers coach students from Japan disaster areas

BALTIMORE, United States - Junior and senior high school baseball club members from the disaster-hit northeastern Japan prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima get coaching from players of the Baltimore Orioles at the team's home stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, on Aug. 11, 2011.

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Ishikawa at PGA C'ship

JOHNS CREEK, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa hits his third shot from the bunker on the 12th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, on Aug. 11, 2011.

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Japan, China discuss 6-party talks resumption

BEIJING, China - Shinsuke Sugiyama, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, replies to questions from reporters after talking with Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, in Beijing on Aug. 11, 2011. The delegates discussed steps to resume the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs.

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5 months after quake, tsunami

IWAKI, Japan - People watch fireworks over quake- and tsunami-hit Onahama Port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the disaster struck the area.

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5 months after quake, tsunami

OTSUCHI, Japan - Candles are lined up in hope for the recovery of areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as well as to commemorate the victims of the disaster, during an event at JR Otsuchi Station in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the disaster.

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Thai minister seeks Japanese entry permit for Thaksin

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. New Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul asked Japanese authorities through Japanese Ambassador to Thailand Seiji Kojima on Aug. 11, 2011, to facilitate a visit to Japan later in the month by Thaksin by issuing him with a special entry permit, even though he is ostensibly a convicted criminal and a fugitive from justice, according to sources.

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Eve of 26th anniv. of JAL jet crash

UENO, Japan - People release lanterns into the Kanna River in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, during a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the accident. The plane crashed into a mountain ridge in the prefecture.

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Eve of 26th anniv. of JAL jet crash

UENO, Japan - People release lanterns into the Kanna River in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, during a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the accident. The plane crashed into a mountain ridge in the prefecture.

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5 months after quake, tsunami

MIYAKO, Japan - A woman lines up lanterns made from PET bottles in hope for the recovery of areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, during an event in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the disaster.

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5 months after quake, tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - A firework lights up the sky over a fish market in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck the area.

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Mercury rises in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - High school students walk in a mist sprayed to cool people down amid the heat in Osaka on Aug. 11, 2011. Temperatures climbed above 35 C in many parts of Japan the same day.

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Hello Kitty receives certificate of appreciation

TOKYO, Japan - Hello Kitty poses with a certificate of appreciation handed by internal affairs minister Yoshihiro Katayama (L) at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Tokyo on Aug. 11, 2011. The certificate was sent to Sanrio Co. for its mainstay character's contribution to raising public awareness of the administrative counseling system by appearing on promotional posters. The system marked its 50th anniversary this year.

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Tarutoko plans candidacy for DPJ leadership

TOKYO, Japan - Shinji Tarutoko (C) of the Democratic Party of Japan receives applause from fellow DPJ members belonging to a faction he leads, at a meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 11, 2011. Tarutoko's aides said the same day that the fifth-term lower house member, the former chairman of the DPJ's Diet Affairs Committee, plans to run in the governing party's leadership election, expected to be called in late August.

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Japan marks 5 months since quake, tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - People view a quake- and tsunami-hit area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the disaster struck the area.

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Deficit-financing bond bill approved by lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2011, shows the lower house plenary session in Tokyo which approved the same day the bill to allow the government to issue deficit-covering bonds in fiscal 2011.

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Markdown of Nintendo 3DS

OSAKA, Japan - People form a line to buy Nintendo 3DS portable game consoles at a branch of Yodobashi Camera Co. in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 11, 2011. Nintendo Co. started selling the consoles the same day at stores across Japan for 15,000 yen, 10,000 yen cheaper than the original price.

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Japan marks 5 months after disaster

MIYAKO, Japan - Mackerel are unloaded at Miyako port in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. Fisheries in the prefecture, among areas devastated by the disaster, are being revitalized.

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Japan marks 5 months after disaster

MIYAKO, Japan - Men participate in bidding at a fish market in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, five months after the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami that hit the area. Fisheries in the prefecture, among areas devastated by the disaster, are being revitalized.

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Tarutoko plans candidacy for DPJ leadership

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Shinji Tarutoko of the Democratic Party of Japan. Tarutoko's aides said on Aug. 11, 2011 that the fifth-term lower house member, the former chairman of the DPJ's Diet Affairs Committee, plans to run in the governing party's leadership election, expected to be called in late August.