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15th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

The monument to the "Miracle Pine," the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami of March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 9, 2026, two days ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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15th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

The monument to the "Miracle Pine," the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami of March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 9, 2026, two days ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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15th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

The monument to the "Miracle Pine," the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami of March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 9, 2026, two days ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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15th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

The monument to the "Miracle Pine," the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami of March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in the early hours of March 9, 2026, two days ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Flowers are seen placed in front of the former Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 9, 2025, ahead of the 14th anniversary of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeast. A total of 74 students and 10 teachers and officials from the school died or went missing when it was engulfed by the tsunami.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo taken on March 9, 2025, shows a monument listing the names of the victims of the massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Kesennuma in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi two days ahead of the 14th anniversary of the disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Akita Prefecture's Kanto festival troupe hold up poles decorated with paper lanterns as they march through a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Dancers of Miyagi Prefecture's Sendai Suzume Odori (sparrow dance) troupe march through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in the prefecture's capital Sendai on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Türkiye's current account deficit hits nearly 9.85 bln USD in Jan.

STORY: Türkiye's current account deficit hits nearly 9.85 bln USD in Jan. DATELINE: March 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Turkish central bank and banknote counting 2. various of jewellery store and gas station in Türkiye 3. various of a container port STORYLINE: Türkiye's central bank said Monday the country's current account deficit reached nearly 9.85 billion U.S. dollars in January, following a rapid increase in gold imports and soaring energy import bills. The central bank's statistics showed that excluding gold and energy, the current account has a net surplus of 2.6 billion dollars in January. Among items constituting the current account balance, foreign trade in goods recorded a deficit of 12.43 billion dollars, while the services registered a net surplus of 3.16 billion dollars. The current account deficit in January beats the record 9. 41 billion dollars deficit in March 2011, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, Türkiy

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12th anniversary of 2011 disaster

Photo taken on March 9, 2023, shows the monument to the "Miracle Pine" in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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12th anniversary of 2011 disaster

Photo taken on March 9, 2023, shows the monument to the "Miracle Pine" in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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12th anniversary of 2011 disaster

Photo taken on March 9, 2023, shows the monument to the "Miracle Pine" in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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12th anniversary of 2011 disaster

A woman looks out at the sea on March 9, 2023, beside the monument to the "Miracle Pine" in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, the only tree in a coastal forest that was not flattened by the deadly tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Kite-flying in Gaza to show solidarity with Japan

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP, March 9 Kyodo - Children fly kites at an event held in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2015, to show solidarity with people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The kite-flying event has been held around the same time every year since 2012.

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Fukushima gubernatorial race campaign starts

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Voters listen to a speech by a candidate in the Fukushima gubernatorial election in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Oct. 9, 2014, when official campaigning began. It is the first gubernatorial election since Fukushima Prefecture was hit by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

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Fukushima gubernatorial race campaign starts

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Voters listen to a speech by a candidate in the Fukushima gubernatorial election in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Oct. 9, 2014, when official campaigning began. It is the first gubernatorial election since Fukushima Prefecture was hit by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

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Sendai mayor explains photos on 2011 disaster at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama explains photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014. The third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held next March in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

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U.N. visitors see photos on 2011 disaster, recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Visitors see photographs and graphics on the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and ensuing recovery efforts, exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014.

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Fukushima people lament evacuation in satirical poems

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoichi Konno (L) posts a satirical poem about his sorrow of being unable to return to his home in the Shimotsushima district in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 9, 2014, despite the passage of three years since the nuclear disaster in March 2011, as he leaves there after a brief visit.

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Japan, Taiwan students hold exchange event on quake help

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Japanese students take part in an exchange event with Taiwanese students in New Taipei City on March 9, 2014, to thank Taiwanese people for their relief efforts at the time of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan ahead of its third anniversary on March 11.

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Shanghai event to support 2011 Japan disaster victims

SHANGHAI, China - Participants at an event in Shanghai, China aimed at supporting Japan's recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami offer flowers for victims of the disaster on March 9, 2014. Event participants called for the continuation of exchanges between high school students in Shanghai and disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan.

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Umbrellas, kites with children's smiles mark quake anniv.

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Umbrellas and kites printed with photos of smiling children from areas devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami are displayed at an event in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 9, 2014, in memory of victims of the disaster, two days ahead of its third anniversary.

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Vets reopen clinic away from home in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Veterinarian Michiko Watanabe examines a cat found in the evacuation zone set after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on Jan. 9, 2014 at her animal clinic in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Together with her vet husband, Watanabe reopened the clinic in April 2012, a year after they evacuated their hometown near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 2011 disaster.

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Fishing vessel washed ashore by 2011 tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Work begins Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle a 330-ton fishing vessel that was washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami and has remained stranded in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest-hit cities in northeastern Japan. Although the stricken vessel, the Kyotoku Maru No. 18, had become a tourist attraction, a plan by the city government of Kesennuma to preserve it as a memorial met with resistance from local residents, who said it revived bitter memories of the calamity.

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Fishing vessel washed ashore by 2011 tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Work begins Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle a 330-ton fishing vessel that was washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami and has remained stranded in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest-hit cities in northeastern Japan. Although the stricken vessel, the Kyotoku Maru No. 18, had become a tourist attraction, a plan by the city government of Kesennuma to preserve it as a memorial met with resistance from local residents, who said it revived bitter memories of the calamity.

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Fishing vessel washed ashore by 2011 tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Work begins Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle a 330-ton fishing vessel that was washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami and has remained stranded in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest-hit cities in northeastern Japan. Although the stricken vessel, the Kyotoku Maru No. 18, had become a tourist attraction, a plan by the city government of Kesennuma to preserve it as a memorial met with resistance from local residents, who said it revived bitter memories of the calamity.

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Fishing vessel washed ashore by 2011 tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - Work begins Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle a 330-ton fishing vessel that was washed ashore by the March 2011 tsunami and has remained stranded in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest-hit cities in northeastern Japan. Although the stricken vessel, the Kyotoku Maru No. 18, had become a tourist attraction, a plan by the city government of Kesennuma to preserve it as a memorial met with resistance from local residents, who said it revived bitter memories of the calamity.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Shishiori area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), the day after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). Work began Sept. 9, 2013, to dismantle the fishing vessel Kyotoku Maru No. 18 (front in both) that was washed ashore by the tsunami and has remained stranded.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, giving a speech as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Ex-Fukushima Daiichi plant chief Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2011 shows Masao Yoshida, head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, as the crippled plant is shown to journalists for the first time since the start of the nuclear crisis in March 2011. Yoshida died of esophageal cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 9, 2013, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. He was 58. After the Fukushima complex was hit by tsunami waves following a huge earthquake, Yoshida took command of the situation in an isolated building on the plant's premises.

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Replica moai for disaster area displayed in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A replica moai statue from Chile goes on display at the Grand Front Osaka commercial facility in Osaka on May 2, 2013. The newly made statue is a present given as a token of support by the Chilean government to the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It will be displayed through May 9 before being transported to Minamisanriku.

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Moai for disaster area displayed in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A moai statue from Chile goes on display at the Grand Front Osaka commercial facility in Osaka on May 2, 2013. The newly made statue is a present given as a token of support from the Chilean government to the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The display will run through May 9, before the statue is transported to Minamisanriku.

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Memorial service in Brazil for March 2011 Japan quake

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Saya Sasaki (2nd from R) and Sakura Takano (3rd from R), "high school student ambassadors for peace," attend a memorial service in Sao Paulo held by Japanese-Brazilians on March 9, 2013, ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated northeastern Japan and crippled the Fukushima nuclear complex. Sasaki and Takano are both survivors of the 2011 disaster.

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Antinuclear demonstration in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Antinuclear demonstrators march in central Taipei on March 9, 2013, ahead of the second anniversary of the nuclear meltdown in northeastern Japan triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

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Animals in Fukushima no-go zone

TOMIOKA, Japan - A pig-boar hybrid searches for food in a house damaged by the March 2011 tsunami in a photo using infrared on the evening of Feb. 9, 2013, in a no-go zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Antinuclear demonstration in Paris

PARIS, France - French people demonstrate in central Paris on March 5, 2013, for the abolition of nuclear power. Some 25 conservation groups in France are scheduled to jointly demonstrate in Paris on March 9 ahead of the March 11 anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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75-yr-old reopens 'ramen' shop twice after 2 big disasters

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tsutomu Nozaki stands in front of his newly opened ramen shop in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2013. Nozaki was forced to close his ramen shop in Naraha as the prefectural town falls within an area designated as one where people are only allowed to stay during daytime due to fears of radiation in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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75-yr-old reopens 'ramen' shop twice after 2 big disasters

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tsutomu Nozaki cooks ramen on Feb. 9, 2013 at his newly opened eatery in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, where he took refuge from the prefectural town of Naraha. Naraha is designated as within an area where people are only allowed to stay during daytime due to fears of radiation in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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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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On-demand bus service for evacuees

KAMAISHI, Japan - Takenori Noda (R), mayor of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, and Soichiro Okudaira, an executive of Toyota Motor Corp., shake hands after concluding an agreement in Kamaishi on Aug. 9, 2012, to jointly test an on-demand bus system linking temporary housing units in the city affected by the 2011 great earthquake and tsunami with its downtown area from October 2012 until March 2015.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (back) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online, after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was restarted later, around 9 p.m., the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Workers in the main control room reactivate the No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, around 9 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor became the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Security guards stand near the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, at 7:52 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at the plant was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

OI, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Seishu Makino (front) attends a press conference in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for regular checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Boy wins gov't award for quake memorial coin design

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a design by Taichi Kojima, 9, one of three designs chosen by Finance Ministry for coins commemorating the March 2011 quake and tsunami. Adults produced the other two designs unveiled by the Finance Ministry on May 29, 2012.

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Quake charity concert in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (front C) and around 300 members of choirs from Japan and the United States hold a charity concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2012, to help rebuild northeastern Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.