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On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake set off a massive tsunami and meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, killing more than 15,000 people and devastating the northeastern coast of Japan.
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Houses are cleared by water taking after a torrent and seismic tremor in Natori City in northeastern Japan. REUTERS/Kyodo
A lady cries while sitting on a street in the midst of the devastated city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan. REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun
Whirlpools are seen taking after a torrent and tremor in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture. REUTERS/Yomiuri
Sixty-year-old survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa (R), who was cleared out to ocean by the tidal wave, is viewed as group individuals from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Aegis vessel Choukai approach, around 15 km (9.3 miles) off Fukushima prefecture.
A harmed auto is found in a burial ground at a territory crushed by the March 11 quake and torrent, in Watari, Miyagi prefecture. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
A lady takes a gander at the harm brought about by a tidal wave and a seismic tremor in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, after the size 8.9 quake struck the range. REUTERS/Yomiuri Shimbun
A piano is submerged in water in the range crushed by tidal wave in Rikuzentakat. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
A young lady who has been detached at a stopgap office to screen, wash down and seclude individuals with high radiation levels, takes a gander at her puppy through a window in Nihonmatsu. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
A volunteer cleans a family photograph that was washed by the March 11 tremor and torrent as child photographs are set to dry at a volunteer focus in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
People stroll at a zone that was harmed by the seismic tremor and torrent, in Miyako, Iwate prefecture. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Elderly individuals warm themselves with covers at a Japanese Red Cross healing center in the wake of being emptied from the region hit by tidal wave in Ishinomaki. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Survivors respond subsequent to gathering their effects at their crushed house in a town hit by a tremor and tidal wave in Otsuchi. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
An purge shopping road is seen in Tomioka town, inside the prohibition zone of a 20km span around the disabled Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, Fukushima prefecture. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko chat with evacuees at Tokyo Budoh-kan, utilized as a clearing cover, in Tokyo. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Officials in defensive rigging check for indications of radiation on youngsters who are from the clearing range close to the Fukushima Daini atomic plant in Koriyama. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
A specialist, wearing a defensive suit and a cover, is seen from a transport close to the No. 3 reactor working at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. also, Japanese columnists take a gander at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant from transport windows in Fukushima prefecture. REUTERS/David Guttenfelder/Pool
A lady petitions God for the perished as snow falls, at a place where she was utilized at a photograph studio at the time, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, March 2014. REUTERS/Kyodo
Mikio Watanabe holds a representation of his late spouse Hamako under photos of his predecessors and Hamako (best R) at his home at Yamakiya region in Kawamata town, Fukushima prefecture, June 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato
A man strolls beside port zone pulverized by the quake and torrent in Kessenuma town, in Miyagi prefecture. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A angling pontoon is seen on a field from inside a relinquished house in the cleared town of Namie, September 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her home, which was washed away by the tidal wave, used to remain in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture, March 2012. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the size 8.9 tremor struck the range, March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Mainichi Shimbun
A house harmed by the tidal wave is seen at a local location in a clearing zone in Namie, February 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Buddhist friars offer petitions for casualties at Kitaizumi shoreline in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 2012. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao