Japan Pauses to Remember on Disaster's First Anniversary
Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the country last year, leading to one of the worst nuclear crises in history.

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Live television images of the Emperor and Empress being beamed into the memorial ceremony in a gymnasium in Onnagawa, March 9, 2012. (VOA - S. L. Herman)

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Lighting candles in Matsushima to remember those killed, March 9, 2012. (VOA - S. L. Herman)

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Sunday's edition of the Kahoku Shimpo newspaper carried the names of the 19,000+ dead and missing, March 12, 2012. (VOA - S. L. Herman)

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Piles of tsunami debris along the northeast Japanese coast, March 9, 2012. (VOA - S. L. Herman)