• A memorial to victims is placed at Tomioka station, about 10 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Ken Ishii / Getty Images
    A memorial to victims is placed at Tomioka station, about 10 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Ken Ishii / Getty Images
  • A worker wearing protective suits and masks welds storage tanks for radioactive water in the J1 area of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Toru Hanai / AFP
    A worker wearing protective suits and masks welds storage tanks for radioactive water in the J1 area of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Toru Hanai / AFP
  • A man wearing a protective suit and a mask walks in front of a fuel handling machine inside the number four reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg News
    A man wearing a protective suit and a mask walks in front of a fuel handling machine inside the number four reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg News
  • Temporary houses stand in Otsuchi, Iwate. Groundwork is still not finished for most of the homes due to be rebuilt, in Iwate prefecture and elsewhere. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
    Temporary houses stand in Otsuchi, Iwate. Groundwork is still not finished for most of the homes due to be rebuilt, in Iwate prefecture and elsewhere. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
  • Satoru Miura puts fish inside a bucket to give out to his neighbours outside his temporary house in Otsuchi of Iwate prefecture. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
    Satoru Miura puts fish inside a bucket to give out to his neighbours outside his temporary house in Otsuchi of Iwate prefecture. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
  • Police officers look for any sign of missing people three years after the disaster in Namie, near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP
    Police officers look for any sign of missing people three years after the disaster in Namie, near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP
  • A bird’s eye view of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kyodo News / AP Photo
    A bird’s eye view of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kyodo News / AP Photo
  • Firefighters check radiation levels at a community centre in Namie. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP
    Firefighters check radiation levels at a community centre in Namie. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP
  • An empty street in the entry-restricted town of Namie. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
    An empty street in the entry-restricted town of Namie. Kimimasa Mayama / EPA
  • Employees sort out the catch from an experimental fishing at Onahama fishing port in Iwaki. Samples taken from the catch are tested for radioactive contamination before being sold on the local market. Franck Robichon / EPA
    Employees sort out the catch from an experimental fishing at Onahama fishing port in Iwaki. Samples taken from the catch are tested for radioactive contamination before being sold on the local market. Franck Robichon / EPA
  • Members of the media visit the central control room for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Toru Hanai / Reuters
    Members of the media visit the central control room for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Toru Hanai / Reuters
  • Family members offer prayers for relatives who lost their lives in the tsunami three years ago. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
    Family members offer prayers for relatives who lost their lives in the tsunami three years ago. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
  • An abandoned supermaket, located about 10 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Tomioka, Fukushima Ken Ishii / Getty Images
    An abandoned supermaket, located about 10 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Tomioka, Fukushima Ken Ishii / Getty Images
  • An elderly woman walks along a street where buildings were washed away by the tsunami three years ago in Otsuchi of Iwate prefecture. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images
    An elderly woman walks along a street where buildings were washed away by the tsunami three years ago in Otsuchi of Iwate prefecture. Yuriko Nakao / Getty Images

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In pictures: Fukushima disaster three years on

Liz Claus

March 10, 2014

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As Japan marks the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake, the country struggles to rebuild tsunami-hit communities and to clean up radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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