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Nishikori runs with Fukushima children in event

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori runs with children from Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during an event in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Comedian completes 9-day marathon across quake-hit area

IWAKI, Japan - Comedian Kampei Hazama (C) is seen shortly after finishing his nine-day marathon at Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2012. Hazama ran around 460 kilometers across the three northeastern prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima that were hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in an effort to encourage those living there.

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London Games send-off ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Women's wrestling champion Saori Yoshida (L), Japan Olympic delegation Hinomaru flag-bearer, attaches a good-luck charm to her jacket during a send-off ceremony for the national team to the London Olympics, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on July 21, 2012. To the right is javelin thrower Yukifumi Murakami (R), Japan Olympic team captain. They received good-luck charms made of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and made by children in disaster-stricken areas.

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Abandoned animals in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2012, shows dogs that have been abandoned by their owners. The town remains nearly deserted as the government in April 2011 designated it and other municipalities within a 20-kilometer ring around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a no-go zone. The plant's reactors suffered meltdowns after being struck by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, spewing massive amounts of radioactive materials into the air and sea.

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Steller sea lion back to Fukushima aquarium

CHIBA, Japan - A Steller sea lion called Fuku is hoisted in a cage by crane at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, on March 21, 2012, to be transported to Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Fuku was evacuated to the Chiba aquarium after the March 2011 quake and tsunami, and is the last evacuee of the Fukushima aquarium to be sent home.

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'Recovery' boxed meal

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken March 21, 2012, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, shows a boxed meal product, named ''Fukko (recovery) Soraben (boxed meal sold at airport).'' The meal, using ingredients grown in areas near Sendai airport, will be put on sale at the airport, hit by the March 2011 tsunami, on March 25, 2012.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, gives a lecture on radiation during a local women's association meeting in Nihommatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2012. The 44-year-old scientist quit his job at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health when his boss at the government-affiliated institute refused to give the green light for his trip to Fukushima to collect soil and air samples immediately after the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 12, 2011.

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Onagawa soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a cemetery in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 21, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer workers on Dec. 21, 2011, clean and repair the surroundings of the Koganeyama Shrine, a Shinto shrine on an island off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as by a typhoon, prior to the New Year. Many people in Japan customarily visit Shinto shrines on New Year's Day.

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Hasebe donates 45 mil. yen for children in Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese footballer Makoto Hasebe (R), who currently plays for Wolfsburg in Germany, hands a soccer ball to Takahiro Ojima, the principal of a kindergarten in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. Hasebe has decided to donate 45 million yen to the Japan Committee for UNICEF for the reconstruction of the kindergarten damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to support children affected by the disaster.

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'One-and-only' chair for babies in disaster-hit areas

SAPPORO, Japan - Noriyuki Nakao (L), associate professor of Tokai University, looks at chairs, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Nov. 21, 2011, which are to be given to babies born on March 11, 2011, in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, severely hit by the quake and tsunami disasters. A Hokkaido-based team announced the same day the project to present the ''one-and-only'' chairs, which bear each baby's name, their birthday ''March 11, 2011'' and a message ''Be tough toward the future.'' Nakao designed the chair.

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'One-and-only' chair for babies in disaster-hit areas

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2011, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, shows chairs which are to be given to babies born on March 11, 2011, in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, severely hit by the quake and tsunami disasters. A Hokkaido-based team announced the same day the project to present the ''one-and-only'' chairs, which bear each baby's name, their birthday ''March 11, 2011'' and a message ''Be tough toward the future.''

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Opening ceremony for extra Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (top) attends the opening ceremony of a 51-day extraordinary Diet session in the main hall of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2011. The session, from Oct. 20 to Dec. 9, 2011, will discuss a 12.10 trillion yen fiscal 2011 third extra budget to finance full-fledged reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Wine auction in France for Japan quake relief

PARIS, France - A wine auction is held at a hotel in Paris, France, on Sept. 21, 2011, to raise funds to support relief efforts in Japan's northeastern areas hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Buddhist service at Phoenix Hall

KYOTO, Japan - Buddhist monks take part in a service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan at the Phoenix Hall, a Japanese national treasure, at Byodoin temple in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. Around 100 young monks from western Japan took part in the event.

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Lady Gaga arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Popular American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga is pictured as she arrives at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 21, 2011. She is visiting Japan mainly to attend a charity music event, to be held June 25, for the victims of the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami in the northeast.

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Lady Gaga arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Popular American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga (far L) responds to cheers from some 200 avid fans who waited for her arrival at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 21, 2011. She is visiting Japan mainly to attend a charity music event, to be held June 25, for the victims of the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami in the northeast.

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Chant at Phoenix Hall

KYOTO, Japan - Buddhist monks walk toward the Phoenix Hall, a Japanese national treasure, at Byodoin temple in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, on June 21, 2011, for a chant to mourn for people killed in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and to pray for the reconstruction of the region. Around 100 younger monks from western Japan took part in the event.

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Disaster-hit cemetery in March and June

ONAGAWA, Japan - Combined photo shows a cemetery in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture on March 21, 2011 (top frame), with grave stones toppled and a train left by the March 11 tsunami, and the same cemetery on June 3, 2011 (bottom frame).

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Disaster relief event in Peru

LIMA, Peru - Japanese-Peruvians perform in a musical during an event in Lima, Peru, on May 21, 2011, to support Japanese areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

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Chinese Premier Wen visits disaster-hit Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks about Mitsuru Sato, a Japanese man who helped evacuate 20 Chinese trainees before being killed in the March 11 tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, during his visit to the disaster-hit city of Natori in the prefecture on May 21, 2011. Wen praised Sato for helping others regardless of nationality.

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak shakes hands with an evacuee on May 21, 2011, outside the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Fukushima prior to their trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (C) speaks with evacuees at the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima on May 21, 2011, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee visited Fukushima prior to a trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president speaks to disaster victims in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (4th from L) speaks with evacuees on May 21, 2011, at the prefectural Azuma gymnasium in the city of Fukushima, which is being used as a shelter for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Fukushima prior to their trilateral summit meeting in Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen meets Japan's disaster survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) speaks to survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen meets Japan's disaster survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) speaks to survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen visits disaster-hit areas

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao(C) is being briefed about the damage caused by the March 11 quake-triggered tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011.

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) kisses a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen visits disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) arrives at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture on May 21, 2011, to visit areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Chinese premier Wen visits disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao waves as he arrives at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture on May 21, 2011, to visit areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Leaders of Japan, China and S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak. The three leaders are scheduled to visit the city of Fukushima on May 21, 2011, to encourage people affected by the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Wen and Lee will visit Japan for a trilateral summit with Kan in Tokyo.

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Doctor in disaster area among TIME's 100 influential people

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Kanno, a 31-year-old doctor who was on duty at a public hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the town on March 11, 2011. TIME magazine on April 21, 2011, named the doctor in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world. Kanno helped move patients at his hospital to the highest floor immediately after hearing the tsunami alert and over the next two days stayed with them until the last patient had been rescued.

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Zac back in Japan for J-League restart

NARITA, Japan - Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni speaks to reporters at Narita airport east of Tokyo on April 21, 2011, after returning to Japan from Italy for the restart of the J-League. J-League matches will be played on April 23 for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

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PM Kan meets disaster evacuees

KORIYAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) visits an evacuation center accommodating people hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 21, 2011.

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Ozeki Kaio visits evacuation center

OTSUCHI, Japan - Ozeki Kaio holds a boy at an evacuation center in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21, 2011, during his visit with other sumo wrestlers to encourage people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Narita airport president in press conference

NARITA, Japan - Kosaburo Morinaka, president of Narita International Airport Corp., speaks during a press conference at the airport east of Tokyo on April 21, 2011. He said the number of foreign travelers arriving and departing the airport fell 34 percent in March from a year earlier to 494,326, as last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant prompted tour cancellations.

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OECD Secretary General Gurria in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. Releasing its survey report on Japan, the Paris-based club of rich nations said Japan should keep pursuing its fiscal restoration goals despite the huge government spending required for reconstruction following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Cleaning tsunami-hit museum

YAMADA, Japan - Volunteer workers clean mud and debris at the Science Museum of Whale and Sea, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21, 2011.

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Taiwan donates to Japan over disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Taiwan Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (L) hands a list of donations for disaster relief to Reijiro Hattori, head of the Interchange Association, Japan, in Tokyo on April 21, 2011. Taiwan is by far the biggest donor to Japan since the March 11 quake and tsunami, with the island's public and private sectors contributing more than NT$5 billion (US$171.7 million) in cash and more than 563 tons of material aid to Japan.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Children lost in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces observe a moment of silence in front of Okawa Elementary School, of which 74 out of 108 students are dead or missing since the March 11 tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Okawa reopened for a new school year the same day in a rented space in a nearby elementary school, as its facility has been damaged by the disaster.

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Cherry blossom blooms in Miyagi

NATORI, Japan - Cherry blossoms bloom on a branch of a broken tree against the backdrop of rubble in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. The area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Chernobyl still grappling with nuclear disaster

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Photo shows Chernobyl nuclear power plant's reactor No. 4 in Ukraine on March 21, 2011. The reactor was encased in a concrete sarcophagus after the 1986 disaster.