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Rubble removal starts in Futaba, host of Fukushima Daiichi

FUTABA, Japan - A local resident watches the first removal work of rubble generated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba, which hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex, on Dec. 17, 2014. The removal work was postponed due to the meltdowns at the power plant.

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PM Abe visits disaster-hit Fukushima

HIRONO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with reporters in Japan's northeastern town of Hirono, damaged by the March 2011 disaster, on Sept. 17, 2014. After inspecting the disaster-hit area, Abe reiterated his willingness to promote its rehabilitation. (Pool photo)

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Central banker to run in Fukushima gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Hachimura, a Bank of Japan official, meets with the press on Aug. 17, 2014, in the city of Fukushima where he announced he will run in October's Fukushima gubernatorial election, the first leadership race since the March 2011 nuclear disaster there. Hachimura, 55, served as the central bank's Fukushima branch manager between 2005 and 2008 and the Reconstruction Agency's policy adviser after the disaster.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Shishiori area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17, 2011 (top), six 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 - Long-exposure photos show an evening view of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17, 2011 (top), six days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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Court order over death of children in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 17, 2013, shows a courtroom of the Sendai District Court in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, where the court ordered a kindergarten in the prefecture, hit hard by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, to pay 177 million yen in damages over the deaths of four children in a school bus that was swamped by high waves. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show a baggage turnstile at Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on March 17, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on Feb. 28, 2013. Flight services at the airport, which was inundated by the tsunami, resumed around a month after the disaster.

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Japanese-American Sen. Daniel Inouye dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Washington in March 2011, shows U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American Democrat from Hawaii and World War II veteran. Inoue died of respiratory complications on Dec. 17, 2012, at a hospital in the suburbs of Washington. He was 88.

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Quake-tsunami debris incinerated in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Photo shows waste including debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at an incineration plant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2012. Incineration of the debris began at the facility that day.

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Prince Akishino, Vietnam Pres. Sang

HANOI, Vietnam - Japan's Prince Akishino (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the presidential office in Hanoi on Aug. 17, 2012. The prince, the second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, extended his gratitude to Vietnam for "much support" following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

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Emperor, empress convey gratitude to Britons

LONDON, Britain - Emperor Akihito (front), accompanied by Empress Michiko (next to emperor), speaks during a reception at the Japanese Embassy in London on May 17, 2012. The emperor, who is in Britain for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee celebrations, expressed appreciation for British people's donations and contributions to rescue efforts following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress convey gratitude to Britons

LONDON, Britain - Emperor Akihito (2nd from L, at microphone), accompanied by Empress Michiko (next to emperor), speaks during a reception at the Japanese Embassy in London on May 17, 2012. The emperor, who is in Britain for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee celebrations, expressed appreciation for British people's donations and contributions to rescue efforts following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Int'l tourism meeting

SENDAI, Japan - A meeting of the World Tourism and Travel Council, an international organization of executives from 100 major international tourism-related businesses, is held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 17, 2012, to discuss reconstruction work and crisis management following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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1.79 mil. students take achievement tests

TOKYO, Japan - Sixth graders of an elementary school in Tokyo take the education ministry's achievement tests on April 17, 2012. According to the ministry, around 1.79 million sixth-grade elementary and third-year junior high school students nationwide sat the same day for unified achievement tests, after the tests were suspended last year in the wake of the March 2011 disaster.

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2012 (R).

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Temporary shopping center in Iwate Pref.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People flock to a makeshift shopping center set up in a schoolyard in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2011. The shopping center opened the same day for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the area.

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Disaster debris in Otsuchi

SENDAI, Japan - Debris from the massive March 11, 2011, tsunami is piled up on a beach in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Nov. 17, 2011.

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Shark fins dried in the sun in tsunami-hit Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - Shark fins, a local specialty of tsunami-hit Kesennuma, are dried in the sun as part of their processing as a luxury food item, in the Miyagi Prefecture city on Oct. 17, 2011, after shark catches were landed at the Kesennuma port. The fins were suspended by strings because drying platforms were washed away by the March 11 tsunami.

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Burning debris in Iwate Pref.

MORIOKA, Japan - Firefighters on Oct. 17, 2011, hose down stored debris created by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which has been burning for a week in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture.

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Japan win Women's World Cup soccer

FRANKFURT, Germany - Japan players hold a banner thanking the world for support their country in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami after they beat the United States in the Women's World Cup Soccer final in Frankfurt, Germany, on July 17, 2011. Japan won on penalties 3-1 after a 2-2 draw in extra time in its first Women's World Cup victory.

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Olympic soccer bronze medalist Mori dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1994 shows Takaji Mori, who died July 17, 2011, of renal pelvic cancer, at age 67. He helped Japan win the bronze medal in men's soccer at the 1968 Summer Olympics and was the inaugural manager of Urawa Reds in the J-league.

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Film directors to make videos for Japan disaster survivors

CANNES, France - Japanese film director Naomi Kawase speaks to reporters about the ''A Sense of Home'' project, with her son Mitsuki besides her, on May 17, 2011, in Cannes, France. The award-winning film director, who is competing in this year's Cannes International Film Festival, said she has called on international film directors to create 3-minute-11-seconds messages for the March 11 earthquake and tsunami survivors in Japan.

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Japan-Thai soccer charity match

BANGKOK, Thailand - Former Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata (L) plays against Thai players during a charity match for disaster victims at the National Stadium in Bangkok on May 17, 2011. Nakata led the Japanese soccer players for the match to raise money for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the recent flooding in southern Thailand.

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Japan-Thai soccer charity match

BANGKOK, Thailand - Former Japanese football star Hidetoshi Nakata (C) and other players accompanied by children enter the National Stadium in Bangkok ahead of a charity match for disaster victims in Japan and Thailand on May 17, 2011. Nakata led the Japanese soccer players for the match against Thai players to raise money for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the recent flooding in southern Thailand.

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'Megafloat' arrives in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 17, 2011, shows a ''megafloat'' artificial island that arrived at Onahama Port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, the same day. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering using the floating structure to store water contaminated with high levels of radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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'Megafloat' arrives in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 17, 2011, shows a ''megafloat'' artificial island that arrived at Onahama Port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, the same day. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering using the floating structure to store water contaminated with high levels of radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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'Megafloat' arrives in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 17, 2011, shows a ''megafloat'' artificial island that arrived at Onahama Port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, the same day. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering using the floating structure to store water contaminated with high levels of radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster gives Chinese journalists new perspective on Japan

BEIJING, China - A journalist who covered the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and its aftermath reports his findings at a symposium with university students in Beijing on April 17, 2011. A number of Chinese journalists saw their long-held negative views about Japan and its people change after traveling to northeastern Japan to cover the aftermath of the disaster, being impressed with the orderly and patient behavior of the victims and the relatively high transparency of information released.

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano in Minamisoma

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano (2nd from L) in protective gear visits an area under the government's evacuation order where search operations for the victims of the March 11 quake and tsunami are carried out, within a 20-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 17, 2011.

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Rio Taiko performers encourage Japan

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Members of the Rio Nikkei Taiko perform Japanese ''taiko'' drums with the famous Sugarloaf Mountain in the background, at the ''Gambare Japan (Carry on Japan)'' event in Rio de Janeiro, on April 17, 2011. Taiko drummers gathered in at least 24 cities in Brazil the same day for a simultaneous performance, to wish for the recovery of devastated areas in Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan spokesman Edano in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano (L) bows to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the Fukushima prefectural hall in Fukushima City on April 17, 2011. Edano, Japan's top government spokesman, was visiting Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station.

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Morning bazaar resumes in tsunami-hit Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - The morning bazaar in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, resumes on April 17, 2011, for the first time since the coastal city was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - A person reads encouragement letters posted at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, from fifth-graders at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, on March 21, 2011. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

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Letters from Kobe

ONAGAWA, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2011, shows an encouragement letter from a fifth-grader at Yamada Elementary School in Kobe, western Japan, to students at Onagawa Daini Elementary School in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, while Kobe was also devastated by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

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Protest against nuclear power in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Protesters stage a sit-in in front of the Administrative Yuan building in Taipei on March 17, 2011, against the construction of a nuclear power plant.

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Commemorating Japan quake victims in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, United States - A ceremony is held in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles on March 17, 2011, to commemorate the victims of the devastating quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan on March 11.

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Obama signs condolence book

WASHINGTON, United States - Photo shows U.S. President Barack Obama's message to encourage disaster-hit Japan. He signed the condolence book at a former residence of the Japanese ambassador in Washington on March 17, 2011, for the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11.

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Students help run evacuation center

OTSUCHI, Japan - Students at Otsuchi High School in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, which is sheltering around 700 quake evacuees, pose for photos as they clean utensils used to serve meals on March 17, 2011. The students are helping at the evacuation center, cooking, cleaning up and taking care of the elderly evacuees, while some have lost their homes or missing family members from the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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Matsui and Fukudome at MLB exhibition game

PHOENIX, United States - Hideki Matsui (R) of the Oakland Athletics and Kosuke Fukudome of Chicago Cubs shake hands ahead of their exhibition game in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 17, 2011.

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CSKA offer moment of silence for Japan quake victims

PORTO, Portugal - CSKA Moscow players, including Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda (2nd from L), offer a moment of silence for victims of Japan's massive earthquake, ahead of their Europa League match against Porto on March 17, 2011, in Porto, Portugal.

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Obama signs condolence book

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama on March 17, 2011, writes his message in a condolence book at a former residence of the Japanese ambassador in Washington for the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. He wrote, ''Please know that America will always stand by one of its greatest allies during this time of need.''

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Kan brings back Sengoku to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Newly-appointed Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku enters Prime Minister Naoto Kan's office in Tokyo on March 17, 2011. Kan brought back the powerful lawmaker to the government to beef up relief efforts in the aftermath of the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster.

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Memorial Mass in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO, Brazil - People pay floral tribute at a memorial Mass in Sao Paulo for quake and tsunami victims in Japan, organized by local ethnic Japanese groups, on March 17, 2011. About 500 participants commemorated the victims of the historic earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.

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Red Sox collects donation for Japan quake victims

FORT MYERS, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka collects donations for Japan's earthquake victims from baseball fans ahead of a game at a ballpark in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 17, 2011.

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Fukushima nuke plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2003 shows the spent fuel pool of the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. The Self-Defense Forces poured water onto the reactor on March 17, 2011, in an attempt to cool down its apparently overheating spent fuel pool to prevent the release of radiation.

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Red Sox collects donation for Japan quake victims

FORT MYERS, United States - Boston Red Sox pitcher Hideki Okajima (R) collects donations for Japan's earthquake victims from baseball fans ahead of a game at a ballpark in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 17, 2011.

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Politicians mourn for quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (back R) and other lawmakers offer a silent prayer during a House of Representatives plenary session at the Diet building in Tokyo on March 17, 2011, for the victims of the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster.

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Memorial Mass in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Participants of a memorial Mass in Sao Paulo for quake and tsunami victims in Japan, organized by local ethnic Japanese groups, wipe off tears on March 17, 2011. About 500 participants commemorated the victims of the historic earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.

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Messages of support by Chinese children

SHANGHAI, China - Photo taken on March 17, 2011, shows heart-shaped cards with messages written in Japanese by children in China, which were sent with donation money to the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai, following the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The front message reads ''Let's hang in there together.''

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Relief supplies

SENDAI, Japan - Boxes of instant noodles and other supplies are stocked at a facility in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17, 2011. Local authorities in areas devastated by the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami said they are having trouble delivering evacuation centers supplies that have been sent from across the country due to a serious shortage of vehicles and gasoline.