• Japan has struggled to rebuild towns and villages and to clean up radiation from the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Reconstruction plans are finally taking shape, but shortages of skilled workers and materials are delaying the work. Buddhika Weerasinghe/ Getty Images
    Japan has struggled to rebuild towns and villages and to clean up radiation from the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Reconstruction plans are finally taking shape, but shortages of skilled workers and materials are delaying the work. Buddhika Weerasinghe/ Getty Images
  • Balloons in the shape of doves are released into the air during a memorial service. Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP Photo
    Balloons in the shape of doves are released into the air during a memorial service. Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP Photo
  • Chiyoko Hirata, second left, offers a prayer for her parents Choji and Yoriko Suzuki with her elder sister Hisako Matsuda, left on where her parents’ home stood before the disaster. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11
    Chiyoko Hirata, second left, offers a prayer for her parents Choji and Yoriko Suzuki with her elder sister Hisako Matsuda, left on where her parents’ home stood before the disaster. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11
  • A man offers prayers in front of the main entrance of Okawa Elementary School where 74 of the 108 students went missing after tsunami. Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Photo March 11
    A man offers prayers in front of the main entrance of Okawa Elementary School where 74 of the 108 students went missing after tsunami. Shizuo Kambayashi / AP Photo March 11
  • Relatives of tsunami victims offer prayers at the site of their house that was swept by tsunami at Namie, near the stricken Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP Photo March 11
    Relatives of tsunami victims offer prayers at the site of their house that was swept by tsunami at Namie, near the stricken Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP Photo March 11
  • People pray for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Toru Hanai / Reuters / March 11
    People pray for victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Toru Hanai / Reuters / March 11
  • A man looks down after observing a moment of silence at 2.46pm local time, the time at which the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at Shobuta beach. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images / March 11
    A man looks down after observing a moment of silence at 2.46pm local time, the time at which the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at Shobuta beach. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images / March 11
  • Koichi Yamada offers a prayer for his friend Kenichi Sato killed by the tsunami. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11
    Koichi Yamada offers a prayer for his friend Kenichi Sato killed by the tsunami. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11
  • Students take shelter under desks during an earthquake simulation exercise at an elementary school in Tokyo. Schools in Chiyoda ward, one of the central wards in Tokyo, held an annual evacuation drill to prepare for a major earthquake in Tokyo. Yuya Shino / Reuters March 11
    Students take shelter under desks during an earthquake simulation exercise at an elementary school in Tokyo. Schools in Chiyoda ward, one of the central wards in Tokyo, held an annual evacuation drill to prepare for a major earthquake in Tokyo. Yuya Shino / Reuters March 11
  • Residents and family members of victims killedy by earthquake and tsunami in 11 March 2011 search for the missing on the coast of tsunami-devastated Ukedo area in entry-restricted town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11
    Residents and family members of victims killedy by earthquake and tsunami in 11 March 2011 search for the missing on the coast of tsunami-devastated Ukedo area in entry-restricted town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA March 11

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In pictures: Japan marks third anniversary of earthquake tsunami disaster

Rob Gurdebeke

March 11, 2014

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Japan the third anniversary of the massive quake-tsunami disaster that sparked the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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