After over a decade, Japan mourns victims of Fukushima disaster
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A candle vigil was held in memory of earthquake and tsunami victims, on the 11th anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake which triggered a tsunami and nuclear disaster.Around 18,500 people were killed or left missing in the disaster, most of them claimed by the towering waves triggered by one of the strongest quakes ever recorded. The ensuing nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blanketed nearby areas with radiation. As a result, some towns were madeuninhabitable for years and displacing tens of thousands of residents.Japanese television showed live footage of people praying.In 2011, the undersea quake unleashed a deadly tsunami which wrecked entire coastal communities. This is what led to the world's worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl accident.