Visitors pray at a makeshift altar to mourn for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami during a special memorial event in Tokyo Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Japan on Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of the 2011 tsunami left a devastated coastline along the country's northeast that has still not been fully rebuilt. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
March 11, 2020
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Japan marks tsunami anniversary, no govt memorial amid virus
TOKYO (AP) — Some residents along the Japanese northern coast stood on roadsides overlooking the sea, offering silent prayers for their loved ones lost in a massive earthquake and tsunami nine years ago Wednesday. But in Tokyo and many other places around Japan, the day was being remembered without a main government ceremony due to the coronavirus outbreak.