2011, 14 Years Later

The Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami occurred at 2:46 PM on Friday, March 11, 2011, 14 years ago today. Close to 20,000 lost their lives. Fukushima Dai-ichi, Tokyo Electric Power's nuclear plant, experienced a meltdown in multiple reactors, devastated by towering waves and overwhelmed backup generators, which the company and the postwar ruling party in government had been warned about. No one at the operator has been held responsible. Most unfortunately for those of the tsunami inundated municipality of Ofunato, Iwate, nearly 10 % of the town was recently destroyed by a forest fire.