Japanese Emperor Akihito leaves the memorial service for the victims of earthquake in Tokyo on March 11, 2012. Japan marked the first anniversary of March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami which killed some 19,000 people in northern Japan. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Yoshikazu TSUNO
Japanese Emperor Akihito leaves the memorial service for the victims of earthquake in Tokyo on March 11, 2012. Japan marked the first anniversary of March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami which killed some 19,000 people in northern Japan. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Yoshikazu TSUNO
Demonstrators wearing face masks take part in an anti-nuclear protest in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
Relatives of earthquake and tsunami victims offer chrysanthemums to an altar during the memorial service for the victims of earthquake in Tokyo on March 11, 2012. Japan marked the first anniversary of March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami which killed some 19,000 people in northern Japan. AFP PHOTO / POOL / Yoshikazu TSUNO
A girl lights candles in front of a temporary shopping complex in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the massive disaster that devastated Japan's northeast one year ago. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Anti-nuclear protesters march in Tokyo March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since the disaster which set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders. REUTERS/Stringer
People take part in a prayer meeting to mark Japan's first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami at the Japanese embassy in New Delhi March 11, 2012. With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma
Nobuo Watanabe, right, and his wife, Seiko, with their dog look at a breakwater badly damaged by the last year's earthquake and tsunami in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Sunday, March 11, 2012. People across Japan prayed and stood in silence on Sunday to remember the massive disaster that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
A Japanese embassy official prays at a memorial service for the victims of the East Japan earthquake and tsunami, at the Japanese embassy in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 11, 2012. Through silence and prayers, people across Japan on Sunday remembered the massive disaster that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
Anti-nuclear protesters holding lanterns form human chain around the parliament building, marking the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis, in Tokyo March 11, 2012. With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders. REUTERS/Issei Kato
A woman lights candles in memory of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami victims, marking the one year anniversary of the disaster in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Eriko Okuda from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, whose son was killed by a tsunami one year ago, receives a chrysanthemum to offer during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo Sunday, March 11, 2012. Through silence and prayers, people across Japan on Sunday remembered the massive disaster that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno, POOL)
Anti-nuclear protesters form a human chain around the parliament building during a march, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis, in Tokyo March 11, 2012. With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear rallies, Japan marked on Sunday one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. He was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Published Mar 11, 2012
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Japan marked one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders.
Japan marked one year since an earthquake and tsunami killed thousands and set off a radiation crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation's leaders.