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3 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Relatives of Japanese victims killed in a major earthquake that occurred Feb. 22, 2011, in Christchurch, New Zealand, offer a moment of silence at a vacant lot formerly the site of the collapsed Canterbury Television building in the city on Feb. 21, 2014, a day before the third anniversary of the quake.

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3 years after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Relatives of Japanese victims killed in a major earthquake that occurred Feb. 22, 2011, in Christchurch, New Zealand, offer flowers at a vacant lot formerly the site of the collapsed Canterbury Television building in the city on Feb. 21, 2014, a day before the third anniversary of the quake.

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Ceremony for quake victims in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Hisao Yoshida (3rd from L), principal of the Toyama College of Foreign Languages in central Japan, delivers a speech in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2013, at a memorial service for students and staff of an English language school who died in an earthquake that struck the area on Feb. 22, 2011.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Cemetery for NZ quake victims

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (C) and others attend a ceremony in Christchurch on Feb. 21, 2012, to open a special cemetery for victims of the Feb. 22, 2011, earthquake in the city whose remains could not be identified.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A damaged building is seen being demolished in a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2012. The area has been off-limits for nearly a year since the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Flowers are seen attached to a wire fence on Feb. 21, 2012, around the site where the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch, New Zealand, was located before the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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1 year after N.Z. quake

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Damaged buildings and debris are left in a section of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 21, 2012. The area has been off-limits for nearly a year since the Feb. 22, 2011, quake.

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Quake-hit Christchurch, N.Z.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Local residents of the quake-hit city of Christchurch, New Zealand, talk to a police officer standing in a sealed-off district of the city on March 21, 2011. The area was struck by a major earthquake on Feb. 22.

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Red Sox's Matsuzaka at spring camp

FORT MYERS, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka smiles on the mound during spring training in Fort Myers, Florida, on Feb. 21, 2011.

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China's Zhang, N. Korea's Kim Yong Nam meet

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun (L) and Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meet in Pyongyang on Feb. 21, 2011.

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Pandas in Japan from China

NARITA, Japan - A pair of giant pandas are transported in containers after arriving at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, in the evening of Feb. 21, 2011, from China aboard an airplane painted like a panda. The pandas will be kept at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

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Pandas coming to Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A shop in Tokyo's JR Ueno Station sells bread featuring panda faces on Feb. 21, 2011, prior to the arrival of a pair of giant pandas from China at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

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Teenager-driven car rams into wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2011, shows a car wrecked after crashing into the stone wall of a house while being driven by a middle school student without a license earlier in the day in Fukushima Prefecture. Three boys and two girls aged 13 and 14 were inside the car and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

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Teenager-driven car rams into wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2011, shows the stone wall of a house destroyed after a car, driven by a middle school student without a license, crashed into it earlier in the day in Fukushima Prefecture. The car shown in the photo is not the car driven by the teenager.

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LDP disagrees with FY 2011 budget, tax-related bills

TOKYO, Japan - Main opposition Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki (L) greets members of Japan's largest business lobby Nippon Keidanren in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2011. Tanigaki said the LDP disagrees with the government's fiscal 2011 budget and related tax bills, refusing to heed Keidanren chief Hiromasa Yonekura's call for it to cooperate to implement the budget.