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Still recovering, Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 24 1of24A woman who lost her husband and grandchild in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, prays in front of the grave in Miyako, Iwate prefecture, Japan Thursday, March 11, 2021. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast. (Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP)Muneyuki Tomari/APShow MoreShow Less 2of24Japan's Emperor Naruhito, right, and Empress Masako bow in front of the altar for victims...

People, some carrying bouquets, walked to the coast or graves to pray for relatives and friends washed away by the tsunami. Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are scheduled to observe a moment of silence at a memorial service later Thursday.

Still recovering, Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 24 1of24A woman who lost her husband and grandchild in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, prays in front of the grave in Miyako, Iwate prefecture, Japan Thursday, March 11, 2021. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast. (Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP)Muneyuki Tomari/APShow MoreShow Less 2of24Japan's Emperor Naruhito, right, and Empress Masako bow in front of the altar for victims...

Still recovering, Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 24 1of24A woman who lost her husband and grandchild in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, prays in front of the grave in Miyako, Iwate prefecture, Japan Thursday, March 11, 2021. Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast. (Muneyuki Tomari/Kyodo News via AP)Muneyuki Tomari/APShow MoreShow Less 2of24Japan's Emperor Naruhito, right, and Empress Masako bow in front of the altar for victims...

"A wave from hell." Matt Ketchum was mummering as he showed me the video he'd recorded on his phone of the terrifying moment when the tsunami hit his town a few days earlier. Miyako, on Japan's north-eastern coast, became world renowned for footage of a jet-black wall of water hurling yachts over a coast-hugging highway. The nautical debris was still evident when I arrived with my colleague Pol Reygaerts - including a huge cruiser jammed against the twin-columns of a flyover. Equating the tsunami to a demonic force wasn't just Matt's reaction, an English teacher from Pennsylvania. The obl...