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Japan announces it will cancel ceremonies marking the anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus.
2020-03-3

Workers enter one of the buildings at Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant for the first time since an explosion in the days following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-05-5

Emperor of Japan Akihito and Empress Michiko visit areas worst-affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011-04-27

Around 4,000 bodies of people who died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture remain unidentified.
2011-03-29

The World Bank predicts that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami will cause a temporary slowdown in the Japanese economy before reconstruction has a positive economic impact.
2011-03-21

The death toll from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rises to 4,277 with at least 8,194 missing.
2011-03-16

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano reports that as of 10.22 a.m. local time, radiation levels of 30 millisieverts per hour were measured between the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, while at the No. 3 reactor 400 millisieverts per hour were detected, a harmful level to humans.
2011-03-15

A cooling system fails at two other reactors in the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following Friday's earthquake with Yukio Edano claiming that meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors.
2011-03-13

Residents within a six mile radius of the plant are evacuated and residents within 20 miles are warned to stay indoors.
2011-03-12

At least 1000 people have died in the earthquake and tsunami.
2011-03-11