
Japan marks 15 years since tsunami disaster as Takaichi pushes more nuclear energy use
TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast Wednesday as the government pushes for atomic energy use. The magnitude 9. 0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of the region, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes, most of them due to tsunami damage. In Fukushima, some 160,000 people fled their homes due to radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit of...
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