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[Breaking News]Fireworks launched for victims of March 2011 disaster

OTSUCHI, Japan, Aug. 15 Kyodo - Fireworks are set off in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Aug. 15, 2025, in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan town. (Kyodo)

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Fireworks launched for victims of March 2011 disaster

Fireworks are set off in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Aug. 15, 2025, in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan town.

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Fireworks launched for victims of March 2011 disaster

Fireworks are set off in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Aug. 15, 2025, in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan town.

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Fireworks launched for victims of March 2011 disaster

Fireworks are set off in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Aug. 15, 2025, in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan town.

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Fireworks launched for victims of March 2011 disaster

Fireworks are set off in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture on Aug. 15, 2025, in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan town.

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Cycling event in tsunami-hit region

Tour de Tohoku competitors ride in Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 15, 2024. The annual cycling event aims to support recovery from the earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit the region in March 2011.

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Cycling event in tsunami-hit region

Tour de Tohoku competitors start their race in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 15, 2024. The annual cycling event aims to support recovery from the earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit the region in March 2011.

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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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Famed Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto

Photo taken on Aug. 15, 2011 shows world-renowned musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (L) playing the piano at a poetry reading event for Fukushima Prefecture after it was hit by the huge March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Sakamoto, the keyboardist of the legendary electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, known as YMO, died in late March 2023 at 71 after battling cancer.

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Work underway to demolish lodging facility hit by tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Work is seen underway on Dec. 15, 2014, to demolish Enoshima Kyosai Kaikan, a lodging facility in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, overturned by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Demolition of tsunami-hit facility begins in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - A four-story accommodation facility, "Enoshima Kyosai Kaikan," in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, overturned by the March 2011 tsunami, is seen on Dec. 11, 2014. Demolition work began on Dec. 15, although some people had asked to keep it as a relic of the disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Disaster-hit Route 6 stretch in Fukushima opened to traffic

TOMIOKA, Japan - A police vehicle heads out on patrol on Sept. 15, 2014, on a closed stretch of National Route 6 running north to south along the coast in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after being opened to traffic for the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster.

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Emperor, empress visit shopping center in disaster-hit area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit a makeshift shopping center in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 23, 2014. The town was devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that claimed more than 15,000 lives in northeastern Japan. (Pool photo)

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Tsunami-hit high school bld. likely to be preserved

TOKYO, Japan - The building of Kesennuma Koyo High School in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, which was inundated to its fourth floor by the March 2011 tsunami, is seen in this file photo taken in August 2011. The city government on May 15, 2014, set its course toward preserving the building as a relic from the disaster.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Iwaki, Fukushima Pref.

IWAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy visits a support facility for children, affected by the March 11, 2011, disaster, in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 15, 2014.

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Japan's GDP surges

TOKYO, Japan - Economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari holds a press conference at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo after the country's gross domestic product data for the opening quarter of 2014 was released May 15, 2014. Japan's economy grew in the January-March quarter at its fastest pace since the recovery period from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, buoyed by a rush in demand ahead of the first consumption tax hike in 17 years on April 1, the government said.

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Fishermen sell seafood at fair in Ibaraki Pref.

TSUKUBA, Japan - A fisherman directly sells seafood to customers at a fair for Ibaraki Prefecture's marine products held in Tsukuba in the prefecture on March 15, 2014. Fishermen are promoting local marine products to allay consumers' concerns about their safety in the wake of the nuclear accident in the neighboring prefecture following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Tsunami-hit town's uphill race as evacuation reminder

SENDAI, Japan - Dai Suzuki (R) outsprints to win an uphill race in his hometown of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2014, for the second consecutive year. The race is held as a reminder of the importance to flee to higher ground in the event of an earthquake and possible tsunami after the town in northeastern Japan was devastated in the March 2011 quake and tsunami disaster.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people still unaccounted for in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the coast of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the disaster. The disaster killed 15,884 people -- many from drowning -- and another 2,633 people remained missing as of March 10, 2014, according to the National Police Agency.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

MIYAKO, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people still unaccounted for in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the coast of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the disaster. The disaster killed 15,884 people -- many from drowning -- and another 2,633 people remained missing as of March 10, 2014, according to the National Police Agency.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people still unaccounted for in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on the coast of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the disaster. The disaster killed 15,884 people -- many from drowning -- and another 2,633 people remained missing as of March 10, 2014, according to the National Police Agency.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Panoramic photos show the Shishiori area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, (from top) on March 15, 2011, four days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, on Aug. 30, 2012, and on Feb. 14, 2014.

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2014 calendar

MORIOKA, Japan - Hitoshi Oita, a businessman in Morioka, Japan, shows the 2014 Iwate Sanriku Calendar that he planned. It features people in areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture. Photo was taken Nov. 15, 2013.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show (from R front) the No. 4, No. 3, No. 2 and No. 1 reactor buildings at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 15, 2011 (top), about nine months after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years after the disaster on Sept. 6, 2013 (bottom).

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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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Seeds of Fukushima cherry blossom tree donated to Britain

LONDON, Britain - Mizuki Murakami (L) and Kaito Tauchi (R), both 12 years old, of Nakasato elementary school in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, hold seeds collected from a famed cherry blossom tree in the prefecture at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew in London on Nov. 15, 2012. They delivered the seeds on their classmates' behalf to Kew Gardens to express their gratitude for Britain's support for those affected by the March 2011 disaster.

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Seeds of Fukushima cherry blossom tree donated to Britain

LONDON, Britain - Mizuki Murakami (R), along with Kaito Tauchi (C), hands a panel expressing thoughts on the Anglo-Japanese friendship to a staff member of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew in London on Nov. 15, 2012. The two, both 12 years old, of Nakasato elementary school in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, delivered on their classmates' behalf seeds collected from a famed cherry blossom tree in the prefecture to Kew Gardens to express their gratitude for Britain's support for those affected by the March 2011 disaster.

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Japanese join beach cleaning in U.S. West Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Members of a Japanese family join beach cleaning activities in San Francisco on Sept. 15, 2012. Significant amounts of debris generated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan have washed up on U.S. West Coast beaches.

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1st post-quake S. Korean tour group to Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean tourists are served fruit after arriving at Fukushima Airport on Sept. 15, 2012, aboard a chartered flight. They are members of the first group of South Korean tourists to use the airport since the 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami in March that year.

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1st post-quake S. Korean tour group to Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean tourists arrive at Fukushima Airport on Sept. 15, 2012, aboard a chartered flight. They are members of the first group of South Korean tourists to use the airport since the 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami in March that year.

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Japan, U.S. students in quake-hit city

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Japanese and U.S. high school students exchange ideas on July 15, 2012, about how they can help reconstruction following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a northeastern Japanese city hit hard by the disaster.

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San Onofre nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2011 shows the San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California. The number of incidents of abnormal attrition -- or wearing away or grinding down by friction -- found in Japanese-made steam generator tubes in two reactors at the power plant has reached around 15,000, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report on July 12, 2012.

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Ballet troupe from disaster-hit Sendai performs in N.Y.

New York, United States - Yuko Takahashi, artistic director and choreographer of Yuko Takahashi Dance Company from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is pictured in New York on May 15, 2012. The modern ballet troupe from the city, which was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, held a charity performance on May 17 in New York.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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Shimada city to accept disaster debris

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Katsuro Sakurai, mayor of Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, announces the city's decision to accept debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture during a press conference at the city hall on March 15, 2012. Shimada will become the second municipality outside the Tohoku region, following Tokyo, to do so.

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Shimada city to accept disaster debris

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The municipal assembly of Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, passes a resolution March 15, 2012, calling for the acceptance of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture to support the reconstruction of the region. Shimada will become the second municipality outside the Tohoku region, following Tokyo, to do so.

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Former Prime Minister Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Kan verbally lashed Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials shortly after the hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, ordering them to contain the crisis at all costs, company records showed March 15, 2012. ''It doesn't matter if the company executives aged around 60 die at the accident site. I'm going, too,'' Kan is quoted as saying, during his visit to TEPCO's headquarters in the early hours of March 15, 2011.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which a fishing boat brought ashore by the tsunami has not yet been removed.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 6, 2012 (bottom).

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Panoramic photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 6, 2012 (bottom).

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Abandoned emergency center

OKUMA, Japan - The Japanese government's nuclear accident task force shows the press its emergency office in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, which was on March 15, 2011, following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The whiteboard displays notes on radiation levels. On the left is a terminal of the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information, or SPEEDI.

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Abandoned emergency center

OKUMA, Japan - The Japanese government's nuclear accident task force shows the press its emergency office in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012. The office had been abandoned on March 15, 2011, following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Notes left on the whiteboards, including the word ''explosion,'' show the crisis environment at the time the facility was abandoned.

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Abandoned emergency center

OKUMA, Japan - The Japanese government's nuclear accident task force shows the press its emergency office in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012. The office had been abandoned on March 15, 2011, following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Notes left on the whiteboards, including the word ''explosion,'' show the crisis environment at the time the facility was abandoned.

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Mental care center for people affected by March 2011 disaster

MORIOKA, Japan - Hisaki Miyadate (L), deputy governor of Iwate Prefecture, and Iwate Medical University President Akira Ogawa raise a signboard for a mental and emotional care facility for people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 15, 2012. The facility, set up in the university the same day, is intended to provide free counseling and other services.

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JAL holds photo exhibition at Beijing airport

BEIJING, China - Japan Airlines Co. opens a photo exhibition showing the ties between Japan and China at Beijing international airport on Feb. 15, 2012, as the countries mark the 40th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral relations this year. The exhibition, including photographs of areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, is scheduled to run through March 31, 2012.

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Olympus to hold shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Corp. President Shuichi Takayama speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2011. He said the company, which is mired in a financial loss coverup scandal, plans to hold an extraordinary shareholders' meeting in March or April 2012.

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Singapore-funded facility opens in disaster-hit Miyako

MIYAKO, Japan - A tape-cutting ceremony is held Nov. 15, 2011, to open a support center for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The facility was built with 70 million yen in contributions from citizens of Singapore.