REFLECTION & SPRING

22nd March 2013

People pray in front of the remaining structure of a former disaster centre to commemorate the second anniversary of the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami’ in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 11, 2013. Two years after a record earthquake devastated the country’s north-east, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised to speed up reconstruction, saying: “If spring does not come to north-eastern Japan, then a ‘true spring’ will not reach the rest of the country.”