Japan honours victims of 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster
(WorldNews Japan)

Japan is paying tribute to the nearly 20,000 victims of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast of the country 10 years ago, destroying towns and triggering the world`s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga were expected to join a memorial for the dead at a commemorative ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday, while several other public and private events were planned across northeastern Japan. A minute`s silence will be marked nationwide at 14.46 local time (05:46 GMT), the precise moment the 9.0-magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011. The onslaught of waves triggered by the tremor crashed into the northeastern coast,...