Five years after devastating tsunami, Japan pauses to remember

TOKYO — Japan paused at 2:46 p.m. Friday, the exact moment when, five years earlier, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami that claimed more than 18,000 lives. The disaster led to a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which will take 30 or 40 years to decommission, […]











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