THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 11, 2020 at 17:40 JST
Mariko Odawara, 50, from Sapporo, offers a prayer for victims on a beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, early on March 11. Odawara, who visits Fukushima Prefecture every year to do volunteer work, said, “I wish those who are missing could return to their families.” (Hikaru Uchida)
The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region was bathed in warm sunshine on the morning of March 11, the ninth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that ravaged this part of northeastern Japan in 2011 claiming close to 20,000 lives. [Read More]
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