Japan PM Kishida visits 2011 disaster-hit areas

Japan PM Kishida visits 2011 disaster-hit areas

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) pauses for a minute of silence for the victims of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster during his visit to Takatamatsubara Memorial Park in Rikuzantakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2022. (Pool photo)

Japan PM Kishida visits 2011 disaster-hit areas

Japan PM Kishida visits 2011 disaster-hit areas

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) offers flowers during his visit to Takatamatsubara Memorial Park in Rikuzantakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2022. The city was struck by a tsunami following the March 2011 massive earthquake. (Pool photo)

11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People facing the sea observe a moment of silence at Takatamatsubara Memorial Park in the Iwate Prefecture city of Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster.

Japan PM Kishida visits place hit by 2011 tsunami

Japan PM Kishida visits place hit by 2011 tsunami

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front) lays flowers at Takatamatsubara Memorial Park on Oct. 16, 2021, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, one of the places most severely devastated by a massive tsunami in March 2011. (Pool photo)

Japan PM Kishida visits place hit by 2011 tsunami

Japan PM Kishida visits place hit by 2011 tsunami

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) prays after offering flowers at Takatamatsubara Memorial Park on Oct. 16, 2021, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, one of the places most severely devastated by a massive tsunami in March 2011. (Pool photo)