FILE PHOTO: Decontamination workers wearing protective suits and masks, remove radiated soil and leaves from a forest in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant February 24, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
IWAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan, leaving more than 20,000 people dead or missing, and triggering the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Fukushima prefecture, where Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi plant is located and hundreds of thousands of residents fled their homes, was hardest-hit by the earthquake but life outside the contaminated zone has gradually resumed and residents have trickled back.
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