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Key Piece Of Debris Removed From One Of Damaged Fukushima Reactors

FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN - AUG. 2: A key piece of debris was successfully removed Sunday from a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, clearing the way for the removal of over 500 spent fuel rods sitting inside the unit's cooling pool more than four years after the 2011 crisis. An official of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. called the removal of fuel handing equipment from the pool "major progress" in the debris clearing process and a step forward to the reactor's eventual decommissioning. The fuel handing device, used to put fuel rods in and out of the No. 3 reactor and located above its spent fuel pool, fell into the pit when a hydrogen explosion rocked the structure housing the reactor on March 14, 2011.

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Tsunami in Japan: 5 years on

SENDAI, March 5 Kyodo - Combined photos show an area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on April 27, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by massive tsunami; and the same area nearly five years later on Feb. 14, 2016. Seedlings of Japanese black pine trees, planted as part of efforts to prevent disaster, sway in wind.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits nuclear plant in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) and her son Jack Schlossberg (R) wearing protective suits and masks are briefed during their visit to the central control room for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 14, 2014. The plant was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People offer prayers for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2014, its third anniversary.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month 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 - Panoramic photos show an area of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), about a month 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 - 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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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (R).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an area straddling Higashimatsushima and Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture on March 14, 2011 (top), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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Disaster-hit building in Japan, scene of man's survival from tsunami

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Yuichi Yonezawa squats on top of the chimney of his building in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014, reenacting the time he survived the March 2011 tsunami. Although much of the surrounding area has been vacated, Yonezawa intends to preserve the building as a lesson for younger generations about natural disasters and put up a sign on the chimney indicating the water level where the tsunami reached.

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Hanyu's authgraphs, messages on display at Sendai rink

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2014, shows Sochi Olympics figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu's autographs and messages on a bulletin board calling for support for post-disaster reconstruction work at Ice Rink Sendai, a former training base for Hanyu in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi was one of the three prefectures in northeastern Japan ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Diet building illumination resumes

TOKYO, Japan - The Diet building in Tokyo is illuminated on Jan. 24, 2014, as nighttime illumination of the Japanese parliament resumes after a nearly three-year hiatus. The illumination, which started in 1990 to mark the centennial of the launch of the Diet, was halted on March 14, 2011, three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, leading to power shortages in Japan.

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Diet building illumination resumes

TOKYO, Japan - The Diet building in Tokyo is illuminated on Jan. 24, 2014, as nighttime illumination of the Japanese parliament resumes after a nearly three-year hiatus. The illumination, which started in 1990 to mark the centennial of the launch of the Diet, was halted on March 14, 2011, three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, leading to power shortages in Japan.

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Jane Birkin honored for disaster relief effort

PARIS, France - Jane Birkin (R) poses for photos with Japanese Ambassador to France Yoichi Suzuki at the ambassador's official residence in Paris on Nov. 14, 2013. Japan presented this year's Foreign Minister's Commendation award to the French-based singer and actress for her efforts in promoting cultural exchange between Japan and France and for relief activities after the March 11, 2011 tsunami and earthquake disaster.

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2 years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013. Nothing except for a gas station that has resumed operations shows a sign of reconstruction.

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2 years after quake

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 3, 2013.

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Quake-hit firm's greeting cards

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows greeting cards of Konno Printing Co. at its head office in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. The company hit by the March 2011 quake plans overseas sales of the cards designed by emerging Japanese artists.

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IAEA chief visits Fukushima

NARAHA, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano answers reporters' questions in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 14, 2012, after visiting the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the focus of a nuclear crisis triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.

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Japan quake charity concert in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Members of a folk dance company from the Russian Republic of Kalmykia perform on May 14, 2012, during a charity concert event at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow to support people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area with a torii gate for a Shinto shrine in the village of Noda, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2012 (R).

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 14, 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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Higashimatsushima soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Omagari district in the city of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which a ship brought ashore by the tsunami is still left.

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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a coastal area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Yamada soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 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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Disaster-hit cats head to Tokyo

SENDAI, Japan - Cats are taken out from an animal management center in Sendai, northeastern Japan, to be accepted by a cat protection group in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 14, 2012. The group has cooperated in finding new homes in Tokyo and its vicinity for cats from Sendai. Many kittens have been born in areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami among cats who have lost their original owners and became stray.

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Disaster-hit cats head to Tokyo

SENDAI, Japan - A cat is taken out from an animal management center in Sendai, northeastern Japan, to be accepted by a cat protection group in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 14, 2012. The group has cooperated in finding new homes in Tokyo and its vicinity for cats from Sendai. Many kittens have been born in areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami among cats who have lost their original owners and became stray.

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Ex-civil rights 'foot soldier' carries torch for future generations

SELMA, United States - Annie Pearl Avery, a ''foot soldier'' of civil rights movements led by African-Americans in the 1960s, explained her experiences during ''Bloody Sunday,'' the March 7, 1965 aborted demonstration march, in front of photos of scenes at the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute on Nov. 14, 2011. (Photo by Akiko Nabeshima)

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N. Young, Will.i.am in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - CHANGING WORDINGS IN 2ND, 3RD SENTENCES Veteran rocker Neil Young (L) speaks during an event at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2011. Young and Will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas (R front), a popular hip hop group, expressed their desire to support a public-private partnership led by the U.S. and the Japanese governments to aid reconstruction of areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The initiative named ''Tomodachi'' (friends) was forged to support companies and people affected by the disaster through cultural exchange and other events in cooperation with private firms.

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'Miracle pine' seedlings

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows seedlings in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2011, of the so-called ''miracle pine'' tree that had survived the March tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. A report to Rikuzentakata authorities said on Dec. 12, 2011, that the continued survival of the tree, which has become a symbol of the city's reconstruction, is in doubt as its roots have begun to rot due to exposure to salt water. The tree was the only survivor among around 70,000 pines that stood in a scenic area of the Pacific coastal city.

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French Embassy celebrates revolution anniversary in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand speaks on July 14, 2011, during a reception held in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, by the French Embassy in Japan to celebrate the 1789 French Revolution anniversary. About 640 people affected by the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster were invited to the event.

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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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French Embassy celebrates revolution anniversary in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - People affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami attend a reception held July 14, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, by the French Embassy in Japan to celebrate the 1789 French Revolution anniversary. The embassy invited about 640 people affected by the disasters.

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Kirin beer factory in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - A beer factory of Kirin Brewery Co. in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, is opened to the media on July 14, 2011. The brewery on the same day announced its plan to restart beer making at the factory, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, from Sep. 26, 2011.

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Toshiba to deliver water treatment system to Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. employees build a water treatment system in Yokohama on July 14, 2011. The company is set to deliver the system to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to help decontamination efforts amid a series of problems with existing devices. The new system, which can treat 1,200 tons of water a day, will start operation from early August to help plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. deal with the crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Aquamarine Fukushima reopens

IWAKI, Japan - Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, hold a media open day on July 14, 2011, a day before reopening to the public for the first time since the March 11 tsunami.

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Crown prince praises people's blood donations

YAMAGATA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) visits a convention hall in Yamagata Prefecture on July 14, 2011 where people are donating blood. ''I've been heartened to hear that many people including youths donated blood across the country soon after the disasters,'' the crown prince said the same day in a speech at a national blood donation convention, held at the hall. The crown prince was praising people for donating blood in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Divers clean sea in tsunami-hit Ofunato

OFUNATO, Japan - A scuba diver examines a damaged car which was swept into the sea by the March 11 quake-triggered tsunami, on the seabed off a fishing port in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on June 14, 2011. Divers are helping remove rubble which has been swept into the sea by the disaster.

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Divers clean sea in tsunami-hit Ofunato

OFUNATO, Japan - A volunteer worker pulls a fishing equipment retrieved from the seabed by a scuba diver, onto a quay in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, which was struck by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, on June 14, 2011. Divers are helping remove rubble which has been swept into the sea by the disaster.

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Divers clean sea in tsunami-hit Ofunato

OFUNATO, Japan - A scuba diver finds a book on the seabed off Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, which was struck by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, on June 14, 2011. Divers are helping remove rubble which has been swept into the sea by the disaster.

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Character 'dream' made of drawings

SENDAI, Japan - People line up 600 drawings by elementary school children in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by a massive tsunami on March 11, 2011, to form the Chinese character ''yume,'' meaning dream, in the town on June 14, 2011.

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Danish prince in tsunami-hit area

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Danish Crown Prince Frederik (R) visits temporary housing units in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 14, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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Danish prince in tsunami-hit area

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Danish Crown Prince Frederik (C) meets elementary school children in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 14, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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Danish prince in tsunami-hit area

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Danish Crown Prince Frederik (C) plays soccer with elementary school children in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 14, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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BOJ Governor Shirakawa

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa speaks during a press conference at the BOJ head office in Tokyo on June 14, 2011. The Japanese central bank stepped up its efforts to boost the country's economy, which has been flagging since the earthquake and tsunami in March, introducing a 500 billion yen cheap loan program to support smaller companies with growth potential.

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Disaster-hit Higashimatsushima in March and June

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (top frame), three days after the disaster, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). Damaged houses were cleared away, but ships washed ashore by the tsunami remain.

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Disaster-hit Kesennuma in March and June

KESENNUMA, Japan - Combined photo shows local residents walking through debris on a street in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to get water on March 14, 2011 (top frame), three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the area, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame). A large tank and a damaged house on the left side of the street have been cleared away.

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Disaster-hit Otsuchi in March and June

OTSUCHI, Japan - Combination photo shows a Shinto shrine gate and surroundings in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (top), three days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, and the same spot on June 3, 2011.

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Osaka landmark Tsutenkaku resumes illumination

OSAKA, Japan - Tsutenkaku Tower, a landmark in Osaka in western Japan, resumes its usual light-up during the nighttime on May 14, 2011, for the first time in about two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan.