Iwaki Honors Tsunami Victims with Candlelight Memorial 🕯️

ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />The Japanese town of Iwaki in Fukushima prefecture marked the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake and tsunami with a display of more than 3, 000 candles.<br/> <br />The candles were placed in containers bearing messages from people across the prefecture.<br/> <br />The largest arrangement of candles formed a giant sign spelling out the phrase 'Iwaki Bonds of Unity 3-11'.<br/> <br />'Bonds of Unity' became a recurring theme in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster last year as Japan sought to recover from the world's most expensive natural disaster.<br/> <br />Iwaki lies just 30 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter of a century.<br/> <br />Radiation monitors in the park were a reminder that, one year on, life is far from back to normal.