A couple on Sunday pray where their home was standing before last year's earthquake and tsunami. They were participating in the first-year anniversary observation of the disaster in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture. Public life in Japan paused yesterday as the nation marked a year since more than 19,000 people were killed.
A couple on Sunday pray where their home was standing before last year's earthquake and tsunami. They were participating in the first-year anniversary observation of the disaster in Onagawa, Miyagi prShow more
Japanese pause, remember disaster that killed 19,000
On March 11, 2011, a 9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered one of the world's worst tsunamis and the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.