Fifteen years after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 40 meter-tall tsunami hit Japan’s eastern coast on March 11, 2011, a memorial service outside Fukushima City honored victims of the event and took pride in reconstruction.
As many as 27,000 people remain displaced in Fukushima Prefecture, removed from the homes in exclusion zones around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where three reactor cores melted down as a result of the earthquake.
Children who have lived nearly their whole lives displaced from their hometowns spoke at the event, as well as Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Fukushima Prefectural Governor Masao Uchibori
