Japan / Seven years since the largest nuclear disaster after Chernobyl

Japan is remembering today one of the biggest catastrophes in its history, when a major earthquake caused tsunami and nuclear war in the Fukushima power plant, the worst after Chernobyls.

At least 18,500 people were killed in an earthquake of magnitude 9 degrees and a tsunami that hit the shores of Japan.

Car Akihito and Chancellor Michiko will attend the central ceremony in the capital with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the victims' families.

The Nuclear Fukushima suffered enormous damage in the tragedy, following the earthquake, and then the tsunami, and radiation was polluted by air, water and more than several hundred thousand people evacuated. Almost 50,000 people have lost their homes permanently. Last year, the government said the decontamination of areas affected by radiation had been completed and a safe return, but many have not yet returned.

• 11 Mar, 2018
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