- June 11, 2011
- AFP
- Tokyo / D.C..
- (File photo) An arial view of tsunami-hit area in Japan - Reuters.
Japan on Saturday marked three months since its massive quake-tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis, amid simmering public frustration over the government's slow response to the catastrophe.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan, under heavy pressure to step down, visited part of the disaster zone where some 8,000 people remain unaccounted for and more than 90,000 others are holed up in crowded shelters.
Thousands of people were expected to attend an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo as radiation continued to leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 220 kilometres (140 miles) northeast of the capital.
They were to observe a minute's silence at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT), the moment the 9.0-magnitude quake struck below the Pacific seafloor, sending monster tidal waves over the country's northeast coast.
The death toll from the quake - Japan's biggest on record and the world's fourth largest tectonic event since 1900 - has topped 23,000 including the missing.
Hope, the Nippons would soon recover from this tragedy!
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