Japan marks 7th anniversary of tsunami tragedy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows to Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko after praying the altar during the seventh national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2018. (Photo by AP)

Japan has marked the seventh anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster that left more than 18,000 dead or missing. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a minute of prayer at a ceremony in Tokyo.

The magnitude-9.0 quake struck offshore, creating a vast water surge that devastated the north-east coast. It also triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.


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