With sadness but no ceremony, Japan marks disaster anniversary
Japan marked the somber nine-year anniversary of devastating natural disasters and a nuclear accident on Wednesday as official commemorations and vigils were canceled because of fears over the spread of the coronavirus. The March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s (9501.T) Fukushima Daiichi plant, 220 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo. The natural disasters and meltdowns at the Fukushima […]