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Kaoru Wada
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Silent moon
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Sakura flowering
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Japan sounds. Bamboo flute
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Kyuzo Mifune demonstrating Judo
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Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary
Exactly a year on from the enormously destructive earthquake and tsunami, Japan has commemorated the events of that day in ceremonies around the country.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko led a minute of silence in Tokyo’s National Theatre at the precise moment that the 9.0 magnitude tremor unleashed a wall of water that ravaged the northeast coast, killing thousands.
The country is still grappling with the cost, both human and economic. (more…)
