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Panel proposes preservation of tsunami-hit school

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - File photo taken on Jan. 22, 2014, shows a classroom of Kadonowaki Elementary School in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki that was hit by the March 2011 tsunami and fire. An expert panel proposed on Dec. 22, 2014, that the school building be preserved in its current state to hand down the legacy of the disaster.

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Tree seedlings grown from acorns in Iwate Pref.

YAMADA, Japan - Tree seedlings grown from acorns are photographed in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on May 22, 2014. The acorns were picked up by children in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures before being grown by kindergartners and nursery school children nationwide following the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Test facility to simulate big tsunami completed in Chiba

ABIKO, Japan - The Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry's experimental facility in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, capable of creating waves up to one-third the size of the tsunami that hit land following the earthquake of March 11, 2011, is opened to the press on April 22, 2014.

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Fukushima sake brewers promote new brews

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of Fukushima Prefecture's sake brewers meet the press at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2014, to promote new brews. Stressing that their sake are all safe and have undergone strict inspections for radioactive contamination, they expressed hope to revive sales that have been dampened by the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Tsunami-, fire-ravaged school in Ishinomaki left as it is

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - The inside of Kadowaki Elementary School in the coastal city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains in disorder on Jan. 22, 2014, as desks and walls have been covered with mud since a powerful earthquake and the ensuing tsunami and fire devastated the building in March 2011. The city government disclosed the site to members of the media.

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Disaster-hit primary school in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - The tsunami-hit Kadowaki Elementary School in the coastal city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is shown to members of the media on Jan. 22, 2014. The school was ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as well as fire, and the city government is considering preserving the school as a monument to remember the disaster.

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Crown prince, princess visit Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R front) and Crown Princess Masako (R back) are seen off by Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at JR Koriyama Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 22, 2013. The royal couple took a day trip to Koriyama in the prefecture to visit people affected by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Crown prince, princess visit Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L front) and Crown Princess Masako (2nd from L) visit a facility that measures the radiation levels of produce in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2013, during a day trip to the city to visit people affected by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Crown prince, princess visit Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) and Crown Princess Masako talk to children at an indoor playground in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2013, during a day trip to the city to visit people affected by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Crown prince, princess visit Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Crown Princess Masako wave to people greeting them after their arrival in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2013. The royal couple took a day trip to the city to visit people affected by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 6, 2013 (bottom). Work has begun to add soil to areas where houses and commercial facilities are to be reconstructed.

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Emperor, empress visit Fukushima's radiation-hit areas

IITATE, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit a precision machinery parts factory in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 22, 2013. The imperial couple visited Fukushima Prefecture and met people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear plant accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress visit Fukushima's radiation-hit areas

KAWAMATA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko meet people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear plant accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, at a temporary schoolhouse in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 22, 2013.

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IAEA experts visit Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Miroslav Pinak (C), head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section, speaks at a meeting in the city of Fukushima on July 22, 2013. Fifteen experts from the IAEA visited Fukushima Prefecture to cooperate with the prefecture in decontaminating areas exposed to radiation from the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Imperial couple visit Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave at JR Tokyo Station on July 22, 2013, before leaving for Fukushima Prefecture, for a visit to see areas and meet people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

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Imperial couple visit Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are pictured at JR Tokyo Station on July 22, 2013, before leaving for Fukushima Prefecture, for a visit to see areas and meet people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

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2 years after quake

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photos show a bridge in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013. The bridge is still under renovation with traffic control.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 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). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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Man caring for abandoned cattle in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 22, 2012, Naoto Matsumura (C) and his friend Kazuo Endo (R) help a pony onto a truck so he can take it home and care for it, doing so at the request of a resident (L) who has returned home temporarily. 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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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists visit a lake in the Urabandai area of Fukushima Prefecture on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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Chinese tourists in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Chinese tourists pose for photos in front of Tsuruga Castle in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 22, 2012. They were part of the first tour group from the Chinese mainland to visit the prefecture since the March 2011 disaster.

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American to ship back items lost in tsunami to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows David (L) and Yumi Baxter in Kasilof, Alaska, on April 22, 2012. David holds a soccer ball and Yumi holds a volleyball found by David in mid-March 2012 on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska, after the balls floated across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from northeastern Japan in the March 2011 tsunami. The couple initially expressed their intention to deliver the items back to their original owners in person during their upcoming trip to Japan, but have now opted to ship them instead in consideration of the owners' privacy, David Baxter told Kyodo News on May 23, 2012.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by gathering around a truck carrying the rubble, while police officers and city officials try to persuade them to leave the site. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery for trial incineration in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, by sitting in front of a truck carrying the rubble. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters fly a banner reading, ''No to radioactive debris'' on May 22, 2012, as they block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration.

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Quake-tsunami debris blocked

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Protesters on May 22, 2012, block the delivery to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, of debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan for trial incineration. The opponents cite fear of radiation.

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Owner of tsunami-swept volleyball found

KASILOF, United States - Photo shows David (L) and Yumi Baxter in Kasilof, Alaska, on April 22, 2012. David holds a soccer ball and Yumi a volleyball, both found by David in mid-March 2012 on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska. The balls apparently floated across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from northeastern Japan in the March 2011 tsunami. Their owners have been located in Japan.

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Soccer ball lost in Japan's tsunami found off Alaska

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo shows 16-year-old Misaki Murakami, a second-year high school student in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2012. A soccer ball, believed to belong to him, was found on the coast of Middleton Island off Alaska after apparently floating across the Pacific Ocean after being swept away from the northeastern Japanese city in the March 2011 tsunami. Murakami received the ball from classmates in March 2005, when he was in third grade, as a farewell gift before he transferred to another school in the city.

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Fugen reactor decommissioning to be postponed 5 yrs

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows the prototype advanced converter reactor Fugen in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said March 22, 2012 that it will postpone the planned decommissioning of Fugen for five years and until fiscal 2033.

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Radiation expert fighting Fukushima contamination

TOKYO, Japan - Shinzo Kimura (L), a radiation hygiene expert, talks with Chuhei Sakai (C), the leader of a group of residents promoting decontamination in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, while measuring radiation levels in Iwaki on Feb. 22, 2012. Kimura 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 the 44-year-old scientist's 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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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 22, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom), when people offer prayers there. At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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Nobel laureate Oe

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on April 22, 2011, shows Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe. Twenty-two Japanese writers, including Oe, have been invited to France's largest book fair, the Salon du Livre, to be held in March in Paris, the fair's organizer said on Jan. 11, 2012.

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Calendar to support pets in Fukushima

ROME, Italy - A member of the Japanese Speaking Guides Association in Rome on Dec. 22, 2011, holds a calendar, which was made to support pets affected by the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The association plans to donate the proceeds from sales of the calendar to animal protection groups in Japan.

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Japanese quake-hit students invited to Kremlin

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana (5th from R in front) and a group of Japanese high school and university students pose at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Dec. 22, 2011. The group of students who lost family members in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami visited the seat of Russia's presidential office at the invitation of the president's wife.

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Japanese quake-hit students invited to Kremlin

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana (R) shakes hands with a high school student at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Dec. 22, 2011. A group of 17 Japanese high school and university students who lost family members in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami visited the seat of Russia's presidential office at the invitation of the president's wife.

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KDDI to open foothold in quake-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Tadashi Onodera (C), chairman of KDDI Corp., poses with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (R) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2011. The operator of ''au'' mobile phone services said the same day it will set up a foothold in the city to register and manage subscribers' data as part of its efforts to create employment in the northeastern Japan region ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Children invited aboard U.S. rescue ship Safeguard

ONAGAWA, Japan - Some 400 local children gather to take a tour of the U.S. Navy's rescue and salvage ship Safeguard which made a port call to enhance friendly ties in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2011. The Safeguard worked side-by-side with the Japan Coast Guard in support of Operation Tomodachi to clear waterways in northeastern Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Children invited aboard U.S. rescue ship Safeguard

ONAGAWA, Japan - Local children take a tour inside the wheelhouse of the U.S. Navy's rescue and salvage ship Safeguard which made a port call to enhance friendly ties in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2011. The Safeguard assisted in salvage recovery operations in northeastern Japan in support of Operation Tomodachi with other navy assets after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Children invited aboard U.S. rescue ship Safeguard

ONAGAWA, Japan - A crew member of the U.S. Navy's rescue and salvage ship Safeguard explains to children about diving gear on the ship which made a port call to promote friendship in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2011. About 400 children were invited to take a tour of the vessel that took part in Operation Tomodachi along with other navy assets after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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High school footballers from quake-hit areas leave for Wembley

NARITA, Japan - Sixteen high school footballers from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the three northeastern prefectures hit hard by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, pose for photos at Narita airport near Tokyo ahead of their departure for London on Nov. 22, 2011, to play matches at the famous Wembley Stadium. The trip was realized after England's Football Association offered to let them use the field for half a day free of charge in a show of support for the reconstruction efforts.

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Tokyo, Osaka bourses to merge

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo taken in March 2011 shows the Tokyo Stock Exchange (L) and Osaka Securities Exchange. Their operators, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co., announced on Nov. 22, 2011, that they have agreed to merge in January 2013 amid increased consolidation moves among international rivals.

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French PM Fillon in disaster-hit Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2nd from L) listens as Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama (R) explains about an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 22, 2011, the first day of his two-day trip to Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is scheduled to hold talks with Fillon in Tokyo on the following day.

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Memorial concert for March disaster victims in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba - Keisuke Wakao (R), an oboist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Masuo Nishibayashi (L), Japanese ambassador to Cuba, take part in a memorial concert for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan at a church in the Cuban capital of Havana on Sept. 22, 2011.

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Typhoon aftermath in Miyagi Pref.

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A woman carrying a girl on her back walks on a flooded street in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2011, after Typhoon Roke battered the area. The northeastern Japan city was previously devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Saury noodles in quake-hit Iwate

OFUNATO, Japan - Worker at a rest house holds ''samma ramen,'' or saury noodles, in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on July 22, 2011. Local restaurants jointly devised samma ramen as a specialty, hoping to use the dish to promote the fishing city hit by the March earthquake and tsunami.

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Anpanman museum opens in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Visitors line up waiting for the opening of the Sendai Anpanman Children's Museum & Mall in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2011. The opening was delayed by three months as the area was hit by the March quake and tsunami.

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Japan's crown prince thanks German president for quake assistance

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (R) and German President Christian Wulff toast each other in Berlin on June 22, 2011. The crown prince conveyed his appreciation for Germany's relief assistance in the wake of the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan. (Pool photo by Kyodo)

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Diet session extended for 70 days

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R standing) bows during a Diet session in Tokyo on June 22, 2011, as the Democratic Party of Japan extended the ordinary Diet session for 70 days, despite resistance from major opposition parties, in a bid to pass bills vital for the rebuilding of areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Ofunato city hires temp staff to clear rubble

SENDAI, Japan - People affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami work to clear debris in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2011. The city government has temporarily hired around 110 people for cleanup work in the disaster-stricken city to provide jobs and incomes.

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Monument for poet Miyazawa survives tsunami

TANOHATA, Japan - A monument engraved with a poem by well-known writer Kenji Miyazawa stands amid rubble in the village of Tanohata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2011. The monument was erected in 1997 in front of Sanriku Railway Co.'s Shimanokoshi Station, which was washed away by the March 11 tsunami.