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Musical in disaster-hit city

People affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami in eastern Japan perform in a musical in Higashimatsushima, a Miyagi Prefecture city devastated by the disaster, on March 4, 2023.

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Demolition of ex-Otsuchi town office bldg. begins

MORIOKA, Japan - Demolition works of the former town office building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, begins in full-swing on June 4, 2014 by using heavy machinery. Since opinions of local residents are polarized regarding the demolition of the building, where 40 town officials died due to tsunami in the March 11 devastating earthquake in 2011, part of the building, including the front entrance, will be kept as a relic.

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36m-long sushi roll made in disaster-hit Higashimatsushima

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Some 100 residents in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, make a "norimaki" sushi roll with a length of about 36 meters during a local festival held outside of temporary housing on May 4, 2014.

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Japan to introduce more foreign construction workers

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (2nd from R) speaks at a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 4, 2014. They decided to allow more foreign workers into the construction industry, given growing manpower demand for reconstruction of areas hit by the March 2011 disaster and for building facilities for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Yuriage area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2014 (R).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Arahama area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show a junior high school in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 19, 2011 (L), about a week after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2014 (R).

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Memorabilia found in rubble on show in Ishinomaki, Japan

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - The last display of memorabilia found in rubble after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster is held in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 4, 2014. The items are on display through March 11.

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Spanish artist holds exhibition in Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Jose Maria Sicilia, an eminent Spanish modern artist, speaks about an exhibition in Fukushima of his works inspired by the sounds produced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, during an interview on Oct. 4, 2013 in Tokyo.

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Women in Kesennuma knit to build world-class brand

SENDAI, Japan - Local women in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, practice knitting on Sept. 4, 2013 in the coastal city, which was badly hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Emperor, empress visit disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

TONO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from R) visit temporary housing in Tono, Iwate Prefecture, on July 4, 2013. The couple encouraged residents of the community-care-type houses which were built after the prefecture was severely damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Emperor, empress visit disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

TONO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) visit temporary housing in Tono, Iwate Prefecture, on July 4, 2013. The couple encouraged residents of the community-care-type houses which were built after the prefecture was severely damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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2 years after quake

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2013, with a shipyard having been reconstructed and the pleasure boat Hamayuri that was washed up on the roof of an inn having been removed.

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2 years after quake

IWAKI, Japan - Photos show a shrine in the Hisanohamamachi district in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2013, with a sacred "torii" arch.

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2 years after quake

KESENNUMA, Japan - Photos show U.S. Marines cleaning up debris on the island of Oshima in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2013.

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2011 (top), the day of the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same airport on March 4, 2013. Flight services at the airport, which was inundated by the tsunami, resumed around a month after the disaster.

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2 years after quake

KESENNUMA, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same location on March 4, 2013, with the fishing boat Kyotoku Maru No. 18, which was washed ashore by the March 11 tsunami, still aground.

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N.Y. photo exhibition on Japan's quake reconstruction

NEW YORK, United States - People visit a photo exhibition on Japan's reconstruction from the 2011 disaster at the Japan Society near the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 4, 2013, the opening day of the event.

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Movie on U.S. teacher killed in 2011 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Film director Regge Life speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 4, 2013, before the screening of his movie "Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story," a documentary tracing the life of an American teacher of English killed in the March 2011 disaster in Japan.

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Nikkei hits 22-month high

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a Tokyo office of money broker Gaitame.com Co. shows the closing level of Japan's Nikkei stock index on the afternoon of Jan. 4, 2013. It ended the day's session at 10,688.11, up 292.93 points from the previous session on Dec. 28 and its highest close since March 4, 2011. The U.S. dollar trading in the upper 87 yen range is also shown.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 7, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show a ballpark in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Haramachi thermal power plant in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area stretching from the town of Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture (front), to the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture (back), on March 28, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (R).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on March 25, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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Partial lunar eclipse

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A partial lunar eclipse is observed over Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 8 p.m. on June 4, 2012. The area was hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 7, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which debris has been removed.

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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show JR Minami-Kesennuma Station in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which the roof and railway tracks have been removed.

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 15, 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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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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Higashimatsushima soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show members of the Ground Self-Defense Force saluting to victims at a temporary burial site in the city of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 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 the site was covered by snow.

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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture on March 15, 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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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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Ishinomaki soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a street in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 5, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show school bags at Yuriage Elementary School on June 4, 2011 (L), which were retrieved from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same spot on March 5, 2012 (R). Many bags are still left without being picked up.

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Railroad soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show part of JR Senseki Line rail track in the city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom). Services on the line have been partly resumed.

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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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Rikuzentakata soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 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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Otsuchi soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show a commercial facility in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same facility on March 4, 2012 (bottom). It resumed operation in late 2011.

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Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2012, shows the signboard of a nonprofit Japanese-style pub named Reconstruction Support Tavern, which opened in Tokyo's Ginza district in January the same year to aid recovery efforts in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The tavern, open until late September 2012, aims to donate its monthly profits of over 1 million yen to the prefectural governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Decontamination work in Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 4, 2011, shows workers wearing protective suits using a high-pressure water sprayer to wash the premises of the Okuma town office in Fukushima Prefecture to reduce radioactive materials in the wake of the nuclear crisis. The Environment Ministry said Jan. 26, 2012, it plans to complete decontamination activities in part of the evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by March 2014.

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Hosokawa clan's artifacts

FUKUOKA, Japan - Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa stands in front of some artifacts from the Eisei-Bunko Museum, which holds treasures of the Hosokawa clan, during a preview on Dec. 26, 2011, of a special exhibition to be held from Jan. 1, 2012, through March 4, 2012, at Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Hosokawa is the 18th head of the clan that has lasted some 700 years and ruled the Kumamoto domain in feudal Japan.

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Umbrellas with smiling faces of children

KOBE, Japan - Umbrellas bearing the smiling faces of children from areas hit by natural disasters around the world are opened in front of a statue of a robot cartoon character in Kobe, western Japan, on Dec. 4, 2011, to wish for the reconstruction of northeastern Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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A. Inoki, Ultraman in disaster-hit Iwaki

IWAKI, Japan - Antonio Inoki (R), a Japanese former professional wrestling star, and Ultraman, a popular live action TV series hero, shake hands in quake- and tsunami-hit Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 4, 2011. A free combat sports event and Ultraman show is scheduled to be held in the city on Dec. 4, 2011, in support of the reconstruction of areas devastated by the March 11 disasters.

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A. Inoki visits disaster-hit Iwaki

IWAKI, Japan - Antonio Inoki (R), a Japanese former professional wrestling star, and Iwaki Mayor Takao Watanabe raise their fists at city hall in quake- and tsunami-hit Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 4, 2011. A free combat sports event organized by Inoki will be held in the city on Dec. 4, 2011, in support of the reconstruction of areas devastated by the March 11 disasters.

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Occupy Wall St. protests spread to Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Protesters march near the White House in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 4, 2011, as the Occupy Wall Street protests against an unequal society, which began in New York in September 2011, have spread to the U.S. capital.

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Noda meets tourism organization chief

TOKYO, Japan - World Tourism Organization Secretary General Taleb Rifai (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) meet at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2011. Noda asked for the U.N. agency's continued support of Japan's efforts to recover from the March quake and tsunami.

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Taiwan opposition leader in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The chief policy maker of the governing Democratic Party of Japan, Seiji Maehara (L), and Tsai Ing-wen, president of Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party, shake hands in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2011. During their meeting, Maehara expressed gratitude for the Taiwanese people's help to Japan following the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant