Huge waves swept across swathes of the north-east coast after one of the strongest quakes ever recorded, triggering a nuclear meltdown
Japan is marking 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country’s living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown that traumatised the nation.
Around 18,500 people were killed or left missing in the disaster on 11 March 2011, most of them claimed by the towering waves that swept across swathes of the north-east coast after one of the strongest quakes ever recorded.