Nobuo Watanabe, right, and his wife, Seiko, with their dog look at a breakwater badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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Gathering around what is left of a disaster control center devastated by the earthquake and tsunami, people bow their heads Monday, March 11, 2013 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, in a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast.
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Gathering around what is left of a disaster control center devastated by the earthquake and tsunami, people bow their heads Tuesday, March 11, 2014 in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture in a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast.
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Flowers and water are offered on a makeshift altar in a vacant land next to a damaged building in a neighborhood destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Friday, March 9, 2012, two days before the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
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People observe a moment of silence in front of what is left of a disaster control center in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.
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A girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeast Japan, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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A costumed protester stands outside a Tokyo Electric Power Company building during an anti-nuclear demonstration marking the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami which unleashed the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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A family observes a moment of silence in front of what is left of a disaster control center in an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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A man offers prayers in front of the main entrance of Okawa Elementary School where 74 of the 108 students went missing after the March 11, 2011 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.
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A woman kneels near a pile of debris while offering prayers in the earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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A woman weeps during a moment of silence to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
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The Kikuta family observe a moment of silence at a site where their house once stands at 2:46 PM, the time the March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit, in Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, March 11 2012.
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A woman lights candles during an event decorated with ice sculptures in memory of the last year's earthquake and tsunami victims in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, March 11, 2012.
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Visitors offer prayers in front of the main entrance of Okawa Elementary School where 74 of the 108 students went missing after the March 11 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.