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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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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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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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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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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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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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Imperial couple in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and Empress Michiko (behind emperor) talk to residents of temporary housing units in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 13, 2012, that were erected following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Mother's Day in disaster area

KESENNUMA, Japan - A woman prays before an altar on Mother's Day in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 13, 2012. The area was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Emperor in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (front, facing) and Empress Michiko (behind emperor) talk to residents of temporary housing units in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 13, 2012, that were erected following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Cherry blossoms bloom in Tohoku

IWAKI, Japan - Some blossoms bloom on the someiyoshino breed of cherry tree in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 13, 2012. The tree, located some 300 meters from seashore, was flooded about 80 meters high at the time of the March 2011 tsunami.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which debris has been removed from a road and some temporary buildings have been constructed.

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Ofunato soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom), in which debris has mostly been removed.

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Minamisanriku soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 2, 2012 (bottom). Still much work seemed necessary to reconstruct the heavily damaged area.

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Fishing port soon after quake, now

SOMA, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show Matsukawaura fishing port in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same port on March 2, 2012 (bottom).

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom). The foundations of a house destroyed by the tsunami are seen after the removal of debris.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a pedestrian overpass in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same overpass on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a commercial facility in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same facility on March 4, 2012 (bottom). It resumed operation in late 2011.

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Kamaishi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2012 (bottom).

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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (bottom).

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Minamisanriku soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same town on March 7, 2012 (bottom). Shizugawa High School is shown in the front.

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World Heritage site certificate for Hiraizumi

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - Irina Bokova (L), director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hands a certificate showing the listing of the town of Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture as a World Heritage Site to Iwate Gov. Takuya Tasso (C) in the northeastern Japan town on Feb. 13, 2012. The temples, gardens and archaeological sites of Hiraizumi, in one of the prefectures severely ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2011.

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Arsenal send Miyaichi to Bolton

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Rotterdam on March 13, 2011, shows Japan's soccer player Ryo Miyaichi. Arsenal shipped the winger to Bolton Wanderers on loan for the remainder of the season as the European winter transfer market closed on Jan. 31, 2012.

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FC Barcelona in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Lionel Messi (C) and other members of FC Barcelona pose for photos in Yokohama on Dec. 13, 2011, with children evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis. The children held soccer jerseys presented by the team members, who are in Japan to play in the Club World Cup.

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Santa in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Santa Claus meets Japanese children at Narita airport near Tokyo after arriving from Finland on Dec. 13, 2011. He plans to visit children in areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Santa in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Santa Claus arrives at Narita airport near Tokyo from Finland on Dec. 13, 2011. He plans to visit children in areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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PM Noda's first policy address

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda makes his first policy address since taking office at a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2011. Noda pledged to map out a strategy to revive the country's economy by the end of the year in the aftermath of the March 11 quake-tsunami tragedy and the unfolding global financial market crisis.

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6 months after Japan quake, tsunami

OFUNATO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter of the downtown area of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, (from top) on March 13, June 3 and Sept. 5, 2011, show that debris in the area, hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, has almost been cleared away.

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Remnants of March tsunami

KAMAISHI, Japan - People look at a 100-meter-long cargo ship stranded on the quay in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on August 13, 2011. Reminders of the March 11 tsunami, such as this cargo ship, are drawing visitors during the summer vacation season.

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Summer holiday exodus from Japan

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - International passengers are pictured at Kansai airport, near Osaka, on Aug. 13, 2011. The annual rush of summer vacationers heading overseas peaked at Japan's major airports the same day, with the estimated number of holidaymakers down from last year in the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Summer holiday exodus from Japan

NARITA, Japan - Little girls sit on a suitcase trolley at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Aug. 13, 2011. The annual rush of summer vacationers heading overseas peaked at Japan's major airports the same day, with the estimated number of holidaymakers down from last year in the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan disaster photos exhibited in L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photographs featuring the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, supplied by the daily newspaper Kahoku Shimpo based in disaster-hit Sendai, are shown to the media in Los Angeles on July 13, 2011. The photos are part of Little Tokyo Design Week in the downtown area of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. The four-day event opened on July 14, 2011.

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Japan women's soccer team thanks world for disaster aid

FRANKFURT, Germany - Members of the Japan national team in the Women's Soccer World Cup in Frankfurt make a circuit of the playing field holding a banner with a message thanking the world for help in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, after beating Sweden 3-1 in a semifinal match on July 13, 2011. Japan reached the final of the World Cup for the first time ever.

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Toyota realigning group firms

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda (3rd from L) and leaders of the automaker's subsidiaries pose for photos during a press conference in Nagoya, Japan, on July 13, 2011. The company announced the same day that three of its subsidiaries will start talks for a planned merger in July 2012 to make the Tohoku region, devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami, one of its manufacturing hubs to strengthen domestic production.

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Japan governors' disaster reconstruction proposals

AKITA, Japan - (from R) Akita Gov. Norihisa Satake, Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada and Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii speak at a press conference after a two-day meeting of prefectural governors from across Japan in the city of Akita, northeastern Japan, on July 13, 2011. The meeting adopted a set of proposals on Japan's reconstruction from the March quake and tsunami.

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Hamaoka nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 13, 2011, shows Hamaoka nuclear power plant, operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. Located on a major active fault zone, the plant has been suspended since May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Roses bearing messages of encouragement in petals

OTSUCHI, Japan - A woman looks at roses with messages of encouragement for people in tsunami-hit areas printed on their petals, such as ''Believe in reconstruction,'' at a shelter in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on June 13, 2011. Flower producers and wholesalers in Yamaguchi Prefecture, who have been donating part of their flower-related revenues for the victims of the March 11 disaster in northeastern Japan, delivered the roses to the shelter in Otsuchi, one of the communities hardest hit by the tsunami.

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Hamaoka nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 13, 2011, shows Hamaoka nuclear power plant, operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. Located on a major active fault zone, the plant has been suspended since May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.