Amid virus worries, some residents along the Japanese northern coast stand on roadsides overlooking the sea, offering silent prayers for their loved ones lost in a massive earthquake and tsunami nine years ago.
People offer prayers for the those who were killed in the 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, marking the ninth anniversary of the tsunami.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated large swaths of Japan’s northern coast and triggered a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, contaminating large areas and dislocating many residents. In Tokyo, Abe and his ministers were to gather at the Prime Minister’s Office to offer a silent prayer at 2:46 p.m., the moment the offshore earthquake struck. In disaster-hit towns in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, desks were put out for visitors to sign messages and lay flowers.
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