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Fukushima disaster, 10 years on: Memories and trauma of 'that day' remain vivid
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In a photo taken on March 22, 2011, Mr Takeshi Yokoyama (left) and his wife Umeko carry boxes of food in front of the Kyotoku-maru fishing trawler in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.
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FUKUSHIMA - March 11, 2011 is often referred to as "that day" (ano hi) or more simply as "that" (a-re) in Japan - the pain evoked by memories of the disaster still so acute that references are back-handed in conversations and, sometimes, even the news.
Many remember where they were and what they were doing on that day at 2.46pm, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck and triggered a tragic chain of events whose impact continues to be keenly felt today.
