Reply With QuoteMoving picture.
Hard to believe a year passed indeed, and the Japanese people stoicism, serious and courage is outstanding and humbling.
Japan marks somber anniversary of disaster
Keiko Suzuki, 40 prays at the site of her uncle's home on March 11, 2012 in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Her uncle Kazuyoshi Sugawara was killed when his home was swept away by the tsunami last year. (Chris McGrath/***** Images)more here:(CBS/AP) RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People across Japan prayed and stood in silence on Sunday to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami 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.
In the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, a siren sounded at 2:46 p.m. — the exact time the magnitude-9.0 quake struck on March 11, 2011 — and a Buddhist priest in a purple robe rang a huge bell at a damaged temple overlooking a barren area where houses once stood.
At the same time in the seaside town of Onagawa, people facing the sea pressed their hands together in silent prayer.
In Tokyo's National Theatre, Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led a national ceremony of mourning for the nearly 20,000 victims of last year's multiple disasters. CBS News' Lucy Craft reports that 1,200 people in attendance who had lost a loved one in the disaster paused for a moment of silence, at 2:46 p.m.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57394976/japan-marks-somber-anniversary-of-disaster/
Hard to believe a year passed already.
Moving picture.
Hard to believe a year passed indeed, and the Japanese people stoicism, serious and courage is outstanding and humbling.
I wonder how much it cost to rebuild every thing.
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/03...mi-cleanup/#/9
Some before and after photos.
more here:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...ars-shock.html3/11 First Responders in Japan’s Triple Disaster Overcome Fears, Shock
By Jacob Adelman, Chisaki Watanabe and Yuji Okada - Mar 11, 2012 2:52 PM GMT+0900
Flight engineer Tsutomu Kimura had his first look into the smoking ruins of the No. 3 reactor building when his helicopter buzzed over the Fukushima Dai-Ichi (9501) atomic plant three days after it exploded.
It was March 17, 2011, and Kimura’s job was to push the button to dump 7,500 liters (1,979 gallons) of seawater onto the yellow steel dome of the overheating nuclear containment vessel. The blown-out five-story structure bore little resemblance to pre-March 11 pictures he saw before take-off.
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