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3,000 yellow handkerchiefs fly to support post-quake work

SENDAI, Japan - About 3,000 yellow handkerchiefs sent from across Japan are tied to a zelkova tree in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 23, 2014, as a symbol of support for reconstruction work after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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Tsunami-hit Minamisanriku disaster center in snow

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The Minamisanriku disaster prevention center, which had been reduced to a skeletal structure by the March 2011 tsunami, stands in the snow on Feb. 11, 2014, in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Walking for survey of post-disaster park reconstruction

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013, during a field survey commissioned by the Environment Ministry to choose a 700-kilometer natural path called "Tohoku Kaigan Trail." The selection of the coastal path from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is a core project for a Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park to be created by rebuilding natural parks damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2012, shows the signboard of a nonprofit Japanese-style pub named Reconstruction Support Tavern, which opened in Tokyo's Ginza district in January the same year to aid recovery efforts in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The tavern, open until late September 2012, aims to donate its monthly profits of over 1 million yen to the prefectural governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers search for remains of people missing in the March 2011 quake and tsunami in an operation in the Pacific off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2012. Some 3,300 people remained missing 11 months after the disaster.

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11 months after tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Police officers offer a prayer at a site where a police box used to be in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2012. A police officer who was on duty at the police box went missing 11 months ago when the March 2011 quake and tsunami hit the area. Behind them is a large fishing boat brought by the tsunami still remaining ashore.

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U.N. Forest Hero

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, a Japanese environmental preservation activist in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the March 11, 2011, disaster. The United Nations Forum on Forests said on Feb. 8, 2012, that Hatakeyama has been selected to win its Forest Hero award for the Asian region as a contributor to sustainable forest management.

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5 Chinese to resume job training after surviving tsunami

NARITA, Japan - Five Chinese trainees arrive at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2012. They returned to Japan to resume training at a seafood-processing plant in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, after surviving the March 11, 2011, tsunami that swept away the company's executive officer who helped them to escape and later lost his life.

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G-4 presses for UNSC reform

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Takeaki Matsumoto (2nd from R) and other participants of a meeting of the so-called Group of Four countries head for a press conference after their session in New York on Feb. 11, 2011. The G-4 members, also including Germany, India and Brazil, reiterated their common push for specific results in reforms of the U.N. Security Council by September 2011.

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Norwegian marks world ski jump record

VIKERSUND, Norway - Norway's Johan Remen Evensen speaks in a press conference in Vikersund, Norway, on Feb. 11, 2011, after renewing the world ski jumping record twice during a trial round of World Cup qualification at the expanded Vikersund jump.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - File photo shows then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (front C) meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko (woman in kimono) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in April 1999. Mubarak stepped down after about 30 years of rule on Feb. 11, 2011.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Prayer in Tahrir Square

CAIRO, Egypt - Antigovernment protesters and soldiers offer prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Mubarak steps down

CAIRO, Egypt - People celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 11, 2011, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

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Ioka crowned WBC minimumweight champ

KOBE, Japan - Japan's Kazuto Ioka waves to the crowd after a historic win over Oleydong Sithsamerchai of Thailand and being crowned WBC minimumweight champion at Kobe World Memorial Hall in western Japan on Feb. 11, 2011. Victory for 10th-ranked Ioka saw him set the Japanese record for winning a world title in the fewest number of fights -- seven.

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Post office made of pastries

OSAKA, Japan - A student confectioner decorates a post office made of cookies, sweet buns and other pastries in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2011. Messages on a limited number of original postcards prepared at the site that are dropped into a mailbox there through Valentine's Day will be delivered to the recipients via real post offices.

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Shinmoe Peak erupts again

TAKAHARU, Japan - Shinmoe Peak, a volcano on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southwestern Japan, spews columns of smoke on Feb. 11, 2011. The volcano erupted again after a seven-day hiatus, marking its 10th eruption since late January.

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Monkey boss

OITA, Japan - Male monkey ''Benz,'' believed to be 32 years old, ''attends'' a ceremony Feb. 11, 2011, to mark his becoming the boss of an 816-monkey group at a wilderness park in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Shinmoe Peak erupts again

TAKAHARU, Japan - Smoke from Shinmoe Peak, a volcano on the border of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures in southwestern Japan, spreads in the sky in the town of Takaharu, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. The volcano erupted again after a seven-day hiatus, marking its 10th eruption since late January.

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Police raid gang

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Police officers line up in front of the home of the boss of the Kudo-kai crime syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2011. About 90 police officers searched the home, with some 20 riot squad members standing guard outside, in an investigation into a suspected attempted murder involving a shooting at a local construction site two days earlier.

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Snow covers Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - People walk in the snow on a street in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2011. Snow covered the major western Japanese city for the first time since 2008.

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Emperor enters hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko leave the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for the University of Tokyo Hospital in a car in the snow on Feb. 11, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor entered the hospital for a detailed check of his cardiac blood vessels after showing symptoms of cardiac ischemia, a condition caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart, during a recent physical.

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Japanese-Australia trade talks

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese trade minister Banri Kaieda (R) and his Australian counterpart Craig Emerson shake hands in Sydney on Feb. 11, 2011. The two ministers discussed their countries' efforts to open up respective markets through possible bilateral and regional free trade initiatives. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)