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IAEA chief visits idle nuclear plant in Niigata Pref.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi (front, L) visits the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture northwest of Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2025. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. loaded nuclear fuel into one of the reactors at the idle complex in 2024 as part of preparations to potentially restart the plant that was halted after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Temporary housing residents' picture-story shows

MORIOKA, Japan - Yuriko Nakamura (front L) and other residents of temporary housing in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, hold hand-made picture-story cards based on local folklore on June 18, 2014, in the northeastern Japanese town.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Arahama Junior High School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011. Classrooms are located on the second and third floors of the new building.

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Pupils study in new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Pupils study in a classroom in Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011.

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Designer Huggler on support for disaster-hit Tohoku

TOKYO, Japan - Switzerland-based fashion designer Kazu Huggler speaks about support for the Tohoku region ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami after meeting with Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito in Bern, Switzerland, on June 18, 2014.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show JR Rikuzentakata Station in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), a week after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - A student (L) from Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, and a student from Takata High School in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, eat "hittsumi," a soup dish representative of the local cuisine, that they made together at the Japanese school's temporary facility in Ofunato, Iwate, on Feb. 18, 2014. A group of high school students from northern California visited their peers in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japanese city after helping return to the Japanese high school a boat that was washed across the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish, octopus and squid that have been unloaded at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. They were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish that have been unloaded at Hisanohama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. The fish were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

IWAKI, Japan - Photo shows fish that have been unloaded at Hisanohama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2013. The fish were caught off Iwaki, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fishermen load ice on a fishing boat before leaving Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013. A fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fishing boats leave Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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Fukushima fishermen begin trial operations

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A fishing boat leaves Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, before dawn on Oct. 18, 2013, as a fishermen's group based in the prefecture's southern district of Iwaki restarted operations on a trial basis for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began in March 2011. Another group in the north began trial fishing earlier.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.

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Tsunami memorial

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo on Feb. 18, 2013, shows the former town hall of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, damaged by a tsunami in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Otsuchi Mayor Yutaka Ikarigawa expressed an intention on March 27, 2013, to preserve part of the building as a memorial.

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2 years after quake

IWAKI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show an area around Yotsukura port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with fire engines gathering to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on March 3, 2013, with wave-dissipating blocks.

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2 years after quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 2, 2013, with a bus running to Yanaizu Station in the city of Tome in the prefecture.

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2 years after quake

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Top photo shows a senior high school in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 18, 2011, after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The center and bottom photos taken on March 3, 2013, show the same location after the demolition of the building and a member of the school baseball club running in the area.

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Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows a classroom at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the no-entry area. The date of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster remains on the whiteboard.

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Shizuoka to dispose of debris from quake-hit Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Employees of the Shizuoka city government and local residents, in Shizuoka city on Oct. 18, 2012, measure levels of airborne radiation from incinerated debris generated in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Four Shizuoka municipalities the same day started receiving shipments of debris from Iwate Prefecture for disposal.

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Shizuoka to dispose of quake debris from Iwate

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo shows combustible debris generated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, arriving for disposal at an incineration plant in Shizuoka city on Oct. 18, 2012. Four Shizuoka municipalities the same day started receiving debris from Iwate Prefecture for disposal.

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Goldfish in bowl

TOKYO, Japan - Some 20 children invited from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, view about 1,000 goldfish in a large goldfish bowl at the Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Aug. 18, 2012.

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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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Flower arrangement using tsunami debris

TOKYO, Japan - Flower arrangement artist Hiroki Maeno (L) presents his work using debris caused by the March 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan to Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (R) at the ministry in Tokyo on April 18, 2012.

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Tongan King Tupou V dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2011 shows Tongan King George Tupou V. The king died at a hospital in Hong Kong on March 18, 2012, at the age of 63.

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Tohoku students run L.A. marathon

LOS ANGELES, United States - Students or recent high school graduates who lost parents in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and staff members of Ashinaga, a Tokyo-based charity that supports orphans, cheer for runners in the Los Angeles marathon in Los Angeles, California, on March 18, 2012. Their group included eight college students participating in the event from Japan's northeastern Tohoku region, which was ravaged by the March disaster.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2012 (bottom), in which the framework for a bike parking facility has been constructed after the removal of debris.

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Onagawa soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (R).

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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 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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Kesennuma soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 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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N.Y. trade fair features textile makers from quake-hit area

NEW YORK, United States - A buyer examines a product at a trade fair opened in New York on Jan. 18, 2012, featuring 16 textile and knitting firms from three Japanese prefectures hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan to reclassify Fukushima no-entry zones

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - (from L) Yukio Edano, minister of economy, trade and industry, Goshi Hosono, nuclear disaster minister, and Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction in areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, meet Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato in the city of Fukushima on Dec. 18, 2011. The ministers notified the governor and representatives of 11 other municipal governments near the plant of a plan to reclassify no-entry zones, possibly on April 1, 2012, around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Bhutan king, queen in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (front L) and Queen Jetsun Pema (front R) visit an area hit by the March 11 tsunami in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2011.

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Bhutan king, queen in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (3rd from R front) and Queen Jetsun Pema (R front) offer prayers as they visit an area hit by the March 11 tsunami in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2011.

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Japan quake-hit city desires pandas to be leased

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua (L) and Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama shake hands at the Sendai city offices in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 18, 2011. The mayor of the city, which was hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, reiterated in a meeting with the ambassador the city's request for China to lease giant pandas to the city-run Yagiyama Zoological Park to cheer up local children affected by the disaster. The city made the request to the Chinese government earlier.

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British MOX plant to be closed

LONDON, Britain - File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011.

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Debris from March disaster catches fire

NATORI, Japan - Firefighters stand around piles of smoldering debris in the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 18, 2011. A series of fires, believed to be spontaneous combustion, have recently been observed at temporary storage places of debris created from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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March for sexual minorities in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Participants of the 15th Rainbow March Sapporo parade in Sapporo on the northernmost main Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sept. 18, 2011, calling for a society that does not discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/transsexual people. About 800 people from across the nation took part in the annual event.

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March for sexual minorities in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - Participants of the 15th Rainbow March Sapporo parade in Sapporo on the northernmost main Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sept. 18, 2011, calling for a society that does not discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/transsexual people. About 800 people from across the nation took part in the annual event.

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Disaster-hit Japanese teenagers in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Junior and senior high school students from the disaster-hit Japanese prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi pose for group photos after arriving at Vladivostok airport in the Russian Far East on Aug. 18, 2011. Their trip was made possible after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, proposed that children from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami be invited to Russia.

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Indonesia's Yudhoyono in disaster-hit area

KESENNUMA, Japan - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) and his wife Kristiani Herawati (R) teach children how to play an angklung, a musical instrument of Indonesia's ethnic Sundanese, during their visit to Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 18, 2011, in a show of support for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Kan in disaster area

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (front) views damage to revetments along the shore of Tokyo Bay in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on June 18, 2011. Areas of Urayasu, which hosts the Tokyo Disney Resort, suffered liquefaction of soil in the March 11 quake.

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100 days since disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Local dance is performed to console the souls of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami during a joint funeral in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 18, 2011. Events were held in many locations the same day to mark 100 days since the disaster that killed more than 15,000 people along the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan.

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Indonesia's Yudhoyono in disaster-hit area

KESENNUMA, Japan - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) visits Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 18, 2011, in a show of support for the victims of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Indonesia's Yudhoyono in disaster-hit area

KESENNUMA, Japan - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C) visits Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 18, 2011, in a show of support for the victims of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster-hit Onagawa in March and June

ONAGAWA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (left frame), a week after the disaster, and the same area on June 3, 2011 (right frame). Much of the debris has been cleared away but a car swept atop the roof of a building by the tsunami remains.

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Disaster-hit Rikuzentakata in March and June

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Combined photo shows an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top frame), a week after the disaster, and the same area on June 6, 2011 (bottom frame). Most of the debris has been cleared away almost three months after the disaster.