Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko saidReuters
Wakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko saidReutersWakana Kumagai (L), 7, and her mother Yoshiko cry as they visit the spot where their house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Wakana 's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai, 7, and her mother Yoshiko cry as they visit the spot where their house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai, 7, visits the spot where her house, which was washed away by the March 11, 2011 tsunami, used to stand in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai, 7, is reflected on the grave of her father, who was killed by the tsunami, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012 which marks the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Their father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai, 7, jumps on the grave of her father, who was killed by the tsunami, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, which marks the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Her father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai, 7, holds her illustration of her father (R), who was killed by the tsunami, herself and her mother in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, which marks the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Her father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.ReutersWakana Kumagai (2nd R), 7, observes a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. with her mother Yoshiko (3rd R) and brother Koki (4th R) at the grave of her father, who was killed by the tsunami, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Their father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. His body was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.Reuters
Japan on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis in the country.
Tributes were paid to the 15,800 victims; another 3,300 people are still listed as missing.
A 7-year-old girl, Wakana Kumagai, who lost her father in the tsunami, revisited the spot where her house in Higashimatsushima used to stand. Kumagai's father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11, 2011, earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari Elementary School which was serving as a shelter. Yoshiko said his dead body was found near the shelter four days later.
See the first anniversary of the disaster through the eyes of a child.
