Tsunami

One year passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, which destroyed villages and port towns in Japan's Tohoku region, killing over 15,000 people, and caused major damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

One year later, over 3,000 people remain unaccounted for,  and more than 340,000 evacuated from the disaster zone have not been able to return.

The economic damage is enormous. And, probably the most affected sector was fishery with many of the dead an unaccounted for were fishing people. This was the  greatest natural disaster, since the 2004 Christmas tsunami that caused havoc and mass deaths all over South Asia's coasts, reaching as far west as the East Africa's shores. Also then, fishing people and their livelihood and communities were the most affected. They all should be remembered.