Seven year anniversary of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan, Futaba - 08 Mar 2018
Security staff check cars at a checkpoint in Futaba town, where reactors of Unit 5 and 6 of tsunami-crippled Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are located and is strictly restricted for people to return to live, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 08 March 2018 (09 March 2018), three days before the seventh anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Residents and workers are allowed to enter to the town during daytime but need to leave the area before 17:00. The tsunami following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake devastated Unit 1 to 4 at the TEPCO's nuclear power plant in 11 March 2011. The seventh anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be marked on 11 March 2018.