Symbolic gesture: People releasing doveshaped balloons into the sky to mourn the victims in Natori. (Bottom) Naruhito and Empress Masako bowing in front of an altar for the victims in Tokyo. — AFP/Reuters
Hisanohama: Japan fell silent to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country’s living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation.
A minute’s silence was observed nationwide yesterday at 2.46pm local time, the precise moment a 9.0-magnitude quake hit off the northeast coast on March 11,2011.
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