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Anthony Geary 1947 - 2025

“General Hospital” icon Anthony Geary, 78, died on Dec.14 following complications from an operation three days prior in The Netherlands.—————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anthony Geary ABC Daytime salutes Broadway Cares - The Grand Finale Celebration. Held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on March 13, 2011. Photo bySteven Bergman

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Anthony Geary 1947 - 2025

“General Hospital” icon Anthony Geary, 78, died on Dec.14 following complications from an operation three days prior in The Netherlands.—————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anthony Geary ABC Daytime salutes Broadway Cares - The Grand Finale Celebration. Held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on March 13, 2011. Photo bySteven Bergman / AFF/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Anthony Geary 1947 - 2025

“General Hospital” icon Anthony Geary, 78, died on Dec.14 following complications from an operation three days prior in The Netherlands.—————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anthony Geary & Jonathan Jackson ABC Daytime salutes Broadway Cares - The Grand Finale Celebration. Held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on March 13, 2011. Photo by Steven Bergman / AFF/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Anthony Geary 1947 - 2025

“General Hospital” icon Anthony Geary, 78, died on Dec.14 following complications from an operation three days prior in The Netherlands.—————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anthony Geary & Jonathan Jackson ABC Daytime salutes Broadway Cares - The Grand Finale Celebration. Held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on March 13, 2011. Photo by Steven Bergman / AFF/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wuzhizhou Island's Marine Ranch In Sanya - China

Wang Fengguo conducts underwater patrol at a marine ranch in the waters around Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on March 28, 2020. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore the ecological environment of nearby sea area, Wuzhi

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Wang Fengguo conducts underwater patrol at a marine ranch in the waters around Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on March 28, 2020. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predato

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(SP)CHINA-HAINAN-SANYA-SPORTS-TOURISM-DIVING (CN)

(240608) -- SANYA, June 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Wang Fengguo conducts underwater patrol at a marine ranch in the waters around Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province on March 28, 2020. Sanya boasts a coastline that offers stunning tropical coastal scenery, making it an ideal destination for beach holidays. In recent years, Sanya has been promoting tropical coastal leisure and sports tourism. Activities such as surfing, diving, sailing, and paddle boarding have flourished, attracting water sports enthusiasts from both near and far. Wang Fengguo, 42, has been working at Wuzhizhou Island Tourism Resort since 2006. Initially, he worked as a diving instructor. In 2011, Wuzhizhou Island launched China's first tropical marine ranching project, and Wang joined the team, dedicating himself to marine environmental protection for 13 years. Wang's team is responsible for maintaining the marine ranch, transplanting corals, monitoring the marine environment and cleaning up coral predators. To restore

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More Than 100m Cars Recalled in China

Citizens view a luxury car at a shop in Beijing, China, May 15, 2011. On March 13, 2024, according to the data of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the defective product recall system has been implemented in China for 20 years, and by the end of 2023, China has implemented 2,842 vehicle recalls involving 103 million vehicles.

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Hong Kong restaurant gives disabled youth chance to work

STORY: Hong Kong restaurant gives disabled youth chance to work SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 15, 2024 DATELINE: March 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Holy Cafe 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): MARIA SUNG LAW MAN-KWAN, Founder of Holy Cafe 3. various of Holy Cafe 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MARIA SUNG LAW MAN-KWAN, Founder of Holy Cafe 5. various of Holy Cafe 6. various of Holy Cafe distributing lunch boxes to the elderly 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): MARIA SUNG LAW MAN-KWAN, Founder of Holy Cafe STORYLINE: A restaurant in Hong Kong's Cheung Sha Wan provides job opportunities and training for people with disabilities, helping them to develop their capacity for self-care and integration into society. The restaurant, named Holy Cafe, was opened in 2011 by Maria Sung Law Man-kwan. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): MARIA SUNG LAW MAN-KWAN, Founder of Holy Cafe "I hope the staff members can learn different catering skills here. My restaurant used to serve Western-style food. Some o

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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G7 science chiefs visit tsunami-hit school in Sendai

Representatives from Japan, Britain, France, Canada and the European Union taking part in the Group of Seven science chiefs meeting in Sendai visit on May 13, 2023, an elementary school in the northeastern Japan city that has been preserved to serve as a memory to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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G7 science chiefs visit tsunami-hit school in Sendai

Representatives from Japan, Britain, France, Canada and the European Union taking part in the Group of Seven science chiefs meeting in Sendai visit on May 13, 2023, an elementary school in the northeastern Japan city that has been preserved to serve as a memory to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 6, 2023 shows abandoned houses in Futabacho, Futabagun of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Toshimitsu Konno, head of Fukushima prefecture's Soma Futaba Fisheries Cooperative Association, gives an interview in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 8, 2023. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 8, 2023 shows freshly caught fish at a fish market in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Fishing boats are pictured approaching the shore in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 8, 2023. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 8, 2023 shows a fish market in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 8, 2023 shows a fish market in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 6, 2023 shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futabacho, Futabagun of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER

(230313) -- FUKUSHIMA, March 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Fishermen wait for fishing boats on a bank in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 8, 2023. Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the power plant suffered core meltdowns, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Twelve years after the 2011 accident traumatized Fukushima's fishing industry, local fishermen are still struggling for recovery. As Japan pushes ahead with dumping tons of contaminated nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in spring or summer, local residents, especially those in the fishing industry, believe their livelihoods would again be devastated. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Driving school ordered to pay damages over tsunami deaths

SENDAI, Japan - One of the plaintiffs (2nd from L) who sought damages from a driving school over the deaths of 25 students and a part-time employee in the March 2011 disaster meets with reporters in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai on Jan. 13, 2015. The Sendai District Court ordered the school to pay 1.9 billion yen to relatives of the victims, ruling it could have predicted the arrival of a tsunami after a massive earthquake hit.

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Suit over pupils' deaths in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo shows Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 19, 2014. A hearing was held the same day at the Sendai District Court in the prefecture, after relatives of 23 pupils at the school who died in the earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011, filed a damages suit in March. At the school, 74 of the 108 pupils died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the disaster.

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Sankei Shimbun, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A visitor looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Niigata Nippo, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Kazutaka Sato prays in front of a cenotaph at Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved family members, including Sato, of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo shows Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved families of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show Matsukawaura fishing port in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show an area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 27, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show the local municipal government's tsunami-hit disaster response building in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2014 (bottom).

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Disaster-hit 'miracle pine' in Rikuzentakata, Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - The "miracle pine" in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, which was the only tree to survive among a forest of about 70,000 pines swept away by tsunami in March 2011, stands tall on Feb. 13, 2014. The tree went through preservation work after its roots died due to exposure to seawater, and replica branches were added to restore its appearance.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Shizugawa High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). People still live in temporary housing units (R) on the school ground, where survivors wrote "SOS." (L).

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3rd-party panel concludes on TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Lawyer Yasuhisa Tanaka, who heads a third-party panel set up by Tokyo Electric Power Co., holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2013, after submitting a panel report to the company. The panel concluded that TEPCO did not intentionally provide erroneous information to a Diet-appointed committee tasked to investigate the 2011 accident at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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3rd party panel concludes on TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Naomi Hirose (R), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on March 13, 2013, after receiving a report from a third-party panel set up by the company. The panel concluded that TEPCO did not intentionally provide erroneous information to a Diet-appointed committee tasked to investigate the 2011 accident at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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2 years after quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same location on March 2, 2013, with cars running on a restored national road.

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2 years after quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same location on March 2, 2013, with the frame of the town's antidisaster office visible.

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2 years after quake

KAMAISHI, Japan - Photos show a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same road on Feb. 27, 2013.

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Coming-of-age ceremony in disaster-hit northeast

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Young men and women offer silent prayers during a ceremony on Jan. 13, 2013, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, ahead of the Coming-of-Age Day national holiday on Jan. 14.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:23 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (top L) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:20 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (bottom) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The two objects at top are the lid to the containment vessel. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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Otsuchi town in August 2012

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo shows a part of the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2012. While most of the debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been cleaned up, a wide swath of the town remains vacant.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). A shopping area has been established at bottom R.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Tsubasa Sugeno (L), a university student hailing from Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Ayaka Ogawa (L), who graduated from a senior high school in Iwate Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Japanese owner reunited with buoy lost in tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Sakiko Miura smiles in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 13, 2012, after putting on an apron presented as a gift from American David Baxter, who also shipped her a fish-farm buoy (front) that was lost in the March 2011 tsunami and later found on an island off Alaska. Miura, 63, is believed to be the first Japanese to receive a washed-up item from Japan's disaster-hit region sent back from overseas.

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Japanese owner reunited with buoy lost in tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Sakiko Miura smiles while holding a fish-farm buoy in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 13, 2012. American David Baxter shipped her the buoy that was lost in the March 2011 tsunami and later found on an island off Alaska. Miura, 63, is believed to be the first Japanese to receive a washed-up item from Japan's disaster-hit region sent back from overseas.

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Japanese owner reunited with buoy lost in tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Sakiko Miura caresses a fish-farm buoy in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 13, 2012. American David Baxter shipped her the buoy that was lost in the March 2011 tsunami and later found on an island off Alaska. Miura, 63, is believed to be the first Japanese to receive a washed-up item from Japan's disaster-hit region sent back from overseas.