
Download March 11 marks the first anniversary of the Great East Japan earthquake and the tsunami it spawned.
The terrifying waves left 19,000 dead and missing and tens of thousands homeless.
The tsunami, along with government and corporate complacency, also triggered the biggest nuclear crisis in 25 years when three reactors at Fukushima melted down.
The fall-out from Fukushima sparked mass evacuations, leaving entire communities as ghost towns.
Mark Willacy of Radio Australia has the report.














