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13th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People offer prayers on a beach in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2024, exactly 13 years after a massive earthquake struck northeastern Japan, triggering a killer tsunami and nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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13th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

The sunrise is pictured from a fishing port in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2024, the 13th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Rice-planting dance in disaster-hit Fukushima town

A traditional rice-planting dance is performed on Feb. 18, 2024, at Kusano shrine in the Ukedo area in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The shrine was rebuilt after being swept away by tsunami triggered by the March 2011 earthquake.

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Rice-planting dance in disaster-hit Fukushima town

A traditional rice-planting dance is performed on Feb. 18, 2024, at Kusano shrine in the Ukedo area in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The shrine was rebuilt after being swept away by tsunami triggered by the March 2011 earthquake.

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Search for missing victims of March disaster

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A police officer of the Fukushima prefectural police searches for remains of people who have been missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a fishing port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011. A police helicopter takes part in the operation from the sky.

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Search in Fukushima

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Police officers search for bodies of people missing since the March 2011 quake and tsunami, at a port in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2011. They are clad in protective suits against the backdrop of the exhaust towers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Abe in Fukushima ahead of quake-tsunami anniversary

NAMIE, Japan, March 7 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends the opening ceremony of Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 7, 2020, four days before the ninth anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Pool photo)

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Families, police search for missing victims of 2011 quake

NAMIE, Japan - Family members of people missing in the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami (fore) search for the missing in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, along with Fukushima prefectural police officers on Nov. 11, 2014.

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3 and a half years after tsunami

NAMIE, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people still missing from the March 2011 tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2014, three and a half years after the disaster. According to the National Police Agency, the disaster left 15,889 people dead while the whereabouts of 2,597 people in the three hardest-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima remain unaccounted for.

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3 and a half years after tsunami

NAMIE, Japan - Police officers search for the remains of people still missing from the March 2011 tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2014, three and a half years after the disaster. According to the National Police Agency, the disaster left 15,889 people dead while the whereabouts of 2,597 people in the three hardest-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima remain unaccounted for.

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Search for missing in disaster-hit Fukushima Pref.

NAMIE, Japan - Fukushima prefectural police officers search for clues of people missing since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at Ukedo elementary school in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 11, 2014.

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Search for missing in disaster-hit Fukushima Pref.

NAMIE, Japan - Fukushima prefectural police officers search for clues to the whereabouts of remains of people missing since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at Ukedo elementary school in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 11, 2014.

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Ex-school teacher stays committed to antinuclear movement

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows Hidefumi Owada, a former school teacher and antinuclear activist, holding a crane figurine belonging to the abandoned garden of his home in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The amount of radiation in the garden remains high, leaving no time for Owada, a devoted gardener, to attend to his once-proud garden. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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3 years after Japan quake-tsunami

NAMIE, Japan - People pray at a memorial in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The exhaust stacks of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where a nuclear accident was triggered by the disaster, can be seen in the back.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disaster

NAMIE, Japan - A man prays before a cenotaph in an evacuation zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11, 2014, three years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The plant's exhaust pipes are seen in the background, to the right.

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No-go zones in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A roadside mirror is covered in vines in a no-go zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in January 2014, almost three years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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No-go zones in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A barricade blocks a road in a no-go zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in January 2014, almost three years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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2 and a half years after quake

NAMIE, Japan - A police officer searches for the remains of people still missing from the March 2011 tsunami on a beach in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2013, two and a half years after the disaster.

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Doctor working in town near Fukushima plant for 16 yrs

NAMIE, Japan - Doctor Shunji Sekine examines a medical bag he uses when making emergency calls on May 9, 2013, at a temporary clinic that has opened at the town office building in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture.

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Cow left behind in Fukushima no-entry zone

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows a cow that has turned wild after being discarded by its owner in a no-entry zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in January 2012.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Aerial view of Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 26, 2012, shows an area in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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High radiation at Fukushima condo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a site where stones were crushed for building materials in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2012. A local government said that a high radiation level was detected at a newly built apartment building in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2012, as concrete foundations on the first floor were made from crushed stones from the Namie site in the evacuation zone near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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High radiation at Fukushima condo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a site where stones were crushed for building materials in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2012. A local government said that a high radiation level was detected at a newly built apartment building in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2012, as concrete foundations on the first floor were made from crushed stones from the Namie site in the evacuation zone near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits search for their belongings in an area where their house once stood in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, during their brief visit home on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (C, back). The residents were forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant.

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Nuclear evacuees briefly return home

NAMIE, Japan - Evacuees wearing radiation protection suits walk in their hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in devastation during their brief visit on May 26, 2011, with exhaust pipes of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant visible in the background (L, back). Many residents, who have been forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks from the power plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, lost their homes in the disaster.

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Fukushima gov. in no-entry zone

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato and others wearing radiation protection suits offer prayers in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 15, 2011, for the victims of the March 11 tsunami. The governor entered the village, located in a designated no-entry zone covering areas within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, for the first time to offer prayers and encourage workers engaged in searching for the missing.

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Japan to cull livestock in no-go zone near Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on April 25, 2011, shows cows wandering without their owners within a designated no-entry zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan has decided to cull livestock and poultry in the no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the nuclear power plant due to difficulty in feeding them, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said May 12, 2011.

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Search for tsunami victims in no-entry zone

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force search for people missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a point some 4.5 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 8, 2011. The town has been designated as part of a no-entry zone due to radiation leaks at the plant following the disaster.