A massive undersea quake that hit in March 2011 sent a tsunami barrelling into the coast, leaving more than 18,500 people dead or missing, and sending three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
Cunami viļņi sasnieguši Japānas krastus, tostarp Fukušimas atomelektrostaciju (AES), kur zemestrīces un cunami rezultātā 2011.gadā tika piedzīvota atomelektrostacijas katastrofa.