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People pray in front of a monument built to commemorate those who lost their lives in the disaster in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture.

I first saw " Nuclear Nation ," a haunting documentary about the Fukushima meltdown, at its New York premiere, late last year.

PAST AND PRESENT: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe bows in front an altar for the victims of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the national memorial service in Tokyo on Tuesday Does Shinzo Abe love soldiers who died during World War II more than Japanese living today? The question might sound disrespectful.

Gunma Prefecture is a landlocked region in the Tokyo Regional Area, about 90 minutes northwest of the city of Tokyo by express train.

A Japanese government-funded laboratory said Tuesday it is considering retracting a research paper describing a simple way of turning ordinary cells from mice into stem cells.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to boost rebuilding efforts as the country marked the third anniversary Tuesday of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead, destroyed coastal communities and triggered a nuclear crisis.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been missing for more than 48hrs with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board - and authorities are desperately trying to establish exactly what happened to the plane.

Japan has the capital and needs to pull out of China, which has been its major destination.

Japan is marking the third anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing, turned coastal communities into wasteland and triggered a nuclear crisis.

Japan marks the third anniversary of the quake, tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear plant explosion today.

Three years after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, myriad problems from a shortage of concrete to bureaucratic red tape still plague the reconstruction of coastal areas of Japan's northern Tohoku region.

People pray for victims of March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami atthe former disaster control centre in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 9, 2014 two days before the third anniversary of March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Have you ever been on a high-speed train and, out of nowhere, felt the urge to dip your feet into a nice warm bath while you watch scenery wizz by the window? Most likely your answer is "no," but now you can do just that, thanks to Japan Rail's introduction of luxury foot-baths on their trains this July.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday announced that President Truong Tan Sang and his wife will pay an official State visit to Japan on March 16-19 at the invitation of Japanese Emperor Akihito.

That's the amount power companies have committed so far on thousands of tons of reinforced concrete and steel, armies of workers, tsunami walls and seismic tests.

Young girls at Japanese radio manufacturing plant in Tokyo, stretch in unison to the beat of a man blowing the whistle.

A child walks past a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.162 microsievert per hour, at a square in front of Koriyama Station in Koriyama, west of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima prefecture March 1, 2014.

In Fukuyama city, Hiroshima prefecture, stands the Holocaust Education Centre, the only such facility in this region and a place where Japanese children can find out about Jewish teenage war diarist Anne Frank.

Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside -- fear of radiation has kept them in doors for much of their short lives.

As Japan and the United States start talks on how to respond to armed incidents that fall short of a full-scale attack on Japan, officials in Tokyo worry that their ally is reluctant to send China a strong message of deterrence.