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Comet observed in Japan

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is observed in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Natori, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2024.

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Comet observed in Japan

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is observed in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Natori, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2024.

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Japan: M6.0 Earthquake Strikes Off Fukushima Coast, No Tsunami Warning Issued

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan on April 4 around 12:16 p.m. The depth of the epicenter was approximately 40 km. No tsunami warning was issued. This video shows the ceiling lights and power lines shaking at the JR Natori Station in Miyagi Prefecture.

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13th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Lanterns are displayed in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Natori on March 11, 2024, the 13th anniversary of the powerful earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.

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12th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People pray at a memorial monument in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Natori, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2023, the 12th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast.

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12th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People look at lanterns in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Natori, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2023, the 12th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast.

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Football legend Pele dies at 82

File photo taken in October 2011 shows Pele mingling with Japanese elementary school students in Natori, a northeastern Japan city heavily damaged by the earthquake-tsunami disaster in March 2011. The Brazilian football legend died at 82 on Dec. 29, 2022, after a battle with colon cancer.

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Radar used to search for missing from 2011 disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Police search for traces of people who went missing in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami with members of the office of Tohoku University professor Motoyuki Sato in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 11, 2014.

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Demarcation project starts in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - The Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is photographed on Oct. 20, 2014, at the start of a demarcation project undertaken as part of reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

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Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, and other people attend a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 20, 2014, to launch a demarcation project in the Yuriage district of the northeastern Japan city devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

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3 and a half years after tsunami

NATORI, Japan - Flowers are offered in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas devastated by the 2011 quake-tsunami, on Sept. 11, 2014, three and a half years after the disaster.

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3 and a half years after tsunami

NATORI, Japan - A woman who lost her husband in the 2011 tsunami, prays at the site where their house used to stand in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 11, 2014, three and a half years after the disaster.

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Harvest moon in tsunami-hit area

NATORI, Japan - People watch a harvest moon in a coastal area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2014. The area was devastated by the massive tsunami in March 2011.

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Harvest moon in tsunami-hit area

NATORI, Japan - People watch a harvest moon in a coastal area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sept. 8, 2014. The area was devastated by the massive tsunami in March 2011.

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Fireworks display to mourn victims of 2011 disaster

NATORI, Japan - A young couple and their baby watch a fireworks display in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014, to mourn the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japan region.

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Cenotaph as high as tsunami built in northern Japan

NATORI, Japan - A cenotaph for people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011 is unveiled at a ceremony in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014. The cenotaph, dedicated to 944 victims in the area, stands 8.4 meters tall, the maximum height of the tsunami, and is likened to a fledgling plant.

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Miyagi gov't, Japan Asia Group ink solar power plant deal

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) and Tetsuo Yamashita, chairman of Japan Asia Group Ltd., sign an agreement in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 28, 2014, to build a mega-solar power plant on a lot vacated by a tsunami-ddamaged high school in Natori in the northeastern Japan prefecture.

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Work begins to build public housing in quake-hit Natori

SENDAI, Japan - Natori Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) joins a groundbreaking ceremony in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 23, 2014, to pray for safe work on the construction of public housing for local residents displaced by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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View of post-quake public housing construction site

SENDAI, Japan - A site for constructing public housing for people displaced by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami is seen on July 23, 2014, in the Shimomasuda district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Tourist information center opened at Sendai airport

SENDAI, Japan - Isoo Sasaki, the mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, holds guidebooks in a newly opened tourist information center at Sendai airport on May 12, 2014. The center was opened to pass on the memory of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster as well as to promote tourism in the region.

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Flower auction in quake-hit Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - People take part in a flower auction at a morning market to buy Mother's day carnations and other flowers in the district of Yuriage in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the area severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, on May 11, 2014.

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Carnations from Miyagi Pref. for Mother's Day

SENDAI, Japan - Carnation grower Hiroki Sugai prepares carnations for shipping for Mother's Day in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 8, 2014. Sugai, whose business was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami along with other growers in the area, restarted growing flowers about a year after the disaster.

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Rakuten Eagles' foreign players visit tsunami-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - The Rakuten Eagles' new foreign players, including Kevin Youkilis (2nd from R), stand in front of a monument in memory of those killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at the former Yuriage Junior High School in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 25, 2014.

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Kanji for 'kizuna' formed with candle lanterns

NATORI, Japan - The "kanji" character for "kizuna," or bond, is formed using candle lanterns at Yuriage Junior High School in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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3 years after Japan quake-tsunami

NATORI, Japan - People release dove-shaped balloons with messages during an event in the Yuriage area of Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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3 years after Japan quake-tsunami

NATORI, Japan - People release dove-shaped balloons with messages during an event in the Yuriage area of Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

NATORI, Japan - People participate in a candle event in the Yuriage area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 9, 2014, ahead of the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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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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Upper house election in Japan

NATORI, Japan - Residents of temporary housing (in background) of the 2011 killer tsunami listen to a stump speech by a candidate in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 4, 2013, the day official campaigning started for the July 21 upper house election that will be a key test of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership over the past seven months.

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Miyagi police officer brings cheer to hometown with pistol gold

NATORI, Japan - Photo taken June 12, 2013 at Miyagi Prefectural Police School in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, shows Teruyoshi Akiyama, an assistant inspector in the Miyagi Prefectural Riot Police who won the Gold medal in the Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Munich, Germany in May.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - A passenger receives a lei from a Hawaiian Airlines employee at Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013, the day the U.S. carrier launched regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - Dancers perform hula at Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013, to commemorate the launch by Hawaiian Airlines the same day of regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - A Hawaiian Airlines airplane bound for Honolulu shown shortly before departing from Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013. The U.S. carrier launched regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai that day.

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2 years after quake

NATORI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show a coastal area in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2011 (top), as the area is hit by massive tsunami waves following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and the same location on March 6, 2013, with levees being reconstructed along the coast.

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TEPCO Fukushima office

NATORI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 29, 2012, shows the J-Village soccer training center straddling the towns of Naraha and Hirono in Fukushima Prefecture. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the same day it will set up its Fukushima headquarters at J-Village, which has been used as a base for operations to handle with the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Vienna Philharmonic members play Bach sonata for quake victims

SENDAI, Japan - Four members of the Vienna Philharmonic play on Nov. 2, 2012, a Bach sonata on Mt. Hiyori in Natori city's Yuriage district, Miyagi Prefecture. The commemorative performance took place in front of a monument honoring victims in an area severely damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Vienna Philharmonic members play Bach sonata for quake victims

SENDAI, Japan - Dieter Flury (front R), a member of the Vienna Philharmonic, bows his head after offering flowers at a monument honoring victims on Mt. Hiyori in Natori city's Yuriage district, Miyagi Prefecture, an area severely damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Flury and three other members of the orchestra played a Bach sonata in front of the monument.

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Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd from L) is welcomed by Isoo Sasaki (R), mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, upon arriving at Sendai airport in the prefecture on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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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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1st anniv. of tsunami

NATORI, Japan - Photo taken in the early morning of March 11, 2012, shows an area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas hit hardest by the massive tsunami exactly a year ago.

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Thai premier in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) visits Sendai Nikon Corp.'s camera plant in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. About 40 Thai employees are temporarily working at the plant after flooding destroyed the camera maker's plant in Thailand the previous year. (Pool photo)

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Thai premier in Japan

NATORI, Japan - Visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra hands a gift to a girl at a temporary home for survivors of the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Thai premier in Japan

NATORI, Japan - Visiting Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (L) offers a wreath at an area hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 8, 2012. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show the gymnasium at Yuriage Elementary School in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 9, 2011 (top), with items retrieved from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same gymnasium on March 5, 2012 (bottom), in which items are still left without being picked up.

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Natori being hit by tsunami, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2011 (top), when the area was being hit by massive tsunami following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and the same location on March 2, 2012 (bottom).

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, take a look at a site devastated by the March 11 tsunami from higher ground in the Yuriage district in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip.

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School trip to tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Students of Shuyukan Senior High School in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, offer prayers in the Yuriage district in Natori which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 7, 2012, during their school trip.

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'King' Pele in disaster-hit Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Pele (C), the legendary Brazilian footballer called ''the king of football,'' hands an autographed soccer ball to children at an elementary school in quake- and tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2011. Pele is visiting Japan to promote the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

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'King' Pele in disaster-hit Miyagi Pref.

NATORI, Japan - Pele, the legendary Brazilian footballer called ''the king of football,'' poses with children in quake- and tsunami-hit Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2011. Pele, who is visiting Japan to promote the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, donated soccer balls to Fujigaoka Elementary School in the city.

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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.