Japan remembers

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Updated On Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

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South Korean environmentalists stage a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

South Korean environmentalists stage a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

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South Korean activists stage a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

South Korean activists stage a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

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Wrecked vehicles are heaped up at the Shishiori district in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture. The March 11, 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, mainly in the three most devastated prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, left more than 19,000 people dead or missing. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Wrecked vehicles are heaped up at the Shishiori district in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture. The March 11, 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, mainly in the three most devastated prefectures of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, left more than 19,000 people dead or missing. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

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A South Korean woman playing with her son are seen through a sign of radioactivity during a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

A South Korean woman playing with her son are seen through a sign of radioactivity during a rally marking the one-year anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Koyu Morishita, 54, with his dog Muku, takes a moment of silence in front of his father's grave, who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. Koyu's father, Tokusaburo died at 84 years-old. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Koyu Morishita, 54, with his dog Muku, takes a moment of silence in front of his father's grave, who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. Koyu's father, Tokusaburo died at 84 years-old. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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People hang colorfull paper cranes designed as prayers for the reposed of the souls of victims of the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

People hang colorfull paper cranes designed as prayers for the reposed of the souls of victims of the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

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A family prays after arranging candles at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. The event takes place on the eve of the first-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

A family prays after arranging candles at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. The event takes place on the eve of the first-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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Participants arrange candles at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. The event took place on the eve of the first-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Participants arrange candles at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. The event took place on the eve of the first-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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A girl holds a candle before placing it down to form the shape of "Praying, 3.11" at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

A girl holds a candle before placing it down to form the shape of "Praying, 3.11" at a candlelight event in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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Members of the action group Generation Fukushima demonstrate along with ecologist organisations in Paris, to call for the phasing out of nuclear energy on the occasion of the first anniversary of Japan's Fukushima disaster. (AFP/Joel Saget)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Members of the action group Generation Fukushima demonstrate along with ecologist organisations in Paris, to call for the phasing out of nuclear energy on the occasion of the first anniversary of Japan's Fukushima disaster. (AFP/Joel Saget)

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A man prays for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

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A man prays for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

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A woman prays for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

A woman prays for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

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Taki Nemoto (R) and her family visit a damaged graveyard to pay respects to her mother who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Hirono town, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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Taki Nemoto (R) and her family visit a damaged graveyard to pay respects to her mother who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Hirono town, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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A mourning flag for victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami flies in the wind at a damaged graveyard in Hirono town, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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A mourning flag for victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami flies in the wind at a damaged graveyard in Hirono town, Fukushima prefecture. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

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Aiki Sato (C), his father Yoshihiko (R) and his friend Miroku Shiga, pray for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

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Aiki Sato (C), his father Yoshihiko (R) and his friend Miroku Shiga, pray for students of Okawa Elementary School who died in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. (Reuters/Toru Hanai)

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An elder and a boy carry a "sotoba", a Japanese Buddhist grave marker, with the name of a family member who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami at a cementery in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

An elder and a boy carry a "sotoba", a Japanese Buddhist grave marker, with the name of a family member who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami at a cementery in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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A portrait of a person who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami is seen at a temple during a ceremony in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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A portrait of a person who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami is seen at a temple during a ceremony in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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Koyu Morishita, 54, accompanied by his dog, lights a candle at his father's grave, who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Koyu Morishita, 54, accompanied by his dog, lights a candle at his father's grave, who was killed during last year's earthquake and tsunami in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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Flowers are offered at the broken-grave at Otsuchi town, Iwate prefecture. Japan is readying to mark the first anniversary of the huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast on March 11, 2011 sparking a nuclear crisis at Fukushima. (AFP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Flowers are offered at the broken-grave at Otsuchi town, Iwate prefecture. Japan is readying to mark the first anniversary of the huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast on March 11, 2011 sparking a nuclear crisis at Fukushima. (AFP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura)

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Buddhist monks offer prayers in a neighbourhood flattened out by a tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan on the eve of the first anniversary of the disaster. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Buddhist monks offer prayers in a neighbourhood flattened out by a tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan on the eve of the first anniversary of the disaster. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Gomagi prayer sticks are adjusted before being distributed to attendees of a Buddhist ritual to console the souls of those who were killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami and wish for reconstruction in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)

Updated on Mar 10, 2012 07:42 pm IST

Gomagi prayer sticks are adjusted before being distributed to attendees of a Buddhist ritual to console the souls of those who were killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami and wish for reconstruction in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)

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