JAPAN marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its north-east coast today.The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 2011 caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee.Some 160,000 people left their homes in Fukushima because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 26,000 of them haven't returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.

JAPAN marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its north-east coast today.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 2011 caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee.

Some 160,000 people left their homes in Fukushima because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 26,000 of them haven’t returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.

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