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Japan falls silent for tsunami victims
March 11, 2012, Sunday
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JAPAN fell silent today for a minute to remember the 19,000 people who were killed when a huge tsunami smashed into the country's northeast coast.
Ceremonies around the disaster zone and in Tokyo were held to mark the exact minute the 9.0 magnitude quake struck at 2:46pm (0546 GMT), unleashing the deadly wave.
In the official commemoration in the capital, Japan's solemn national anthem rang out before the emperor and senior politicians stood in silence in memory of those who died in the country's worst post-War disaster.
Television footage from around the nation showed smaller scale ceremonies, many held in the battered remains of tsunami-hit towns, where tearful people remembered friends and relatives killed by the powerful waves of last March.--AFP
Ceremonies around the disaster zone and in Tokyo were held to mark the exact minute the 9.0 magnitude quake struck at 2:46pm (0546 GMT), unleashing the deadly wave.
In the official commemoration in the capital, Japan's solemn national anthem rang out before the emperor and senior politicians stood in silence in memory of those who died in the country's worst post-War disaster.
Television footage from around the nation showed smaller scale ceremonies, many held in the battered remains of tsunami-hit towns, where tearful people remembered friends and relatives killed by the powerful waves of last March.--AFP
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