KESENNUMA, MIYAGI KEN, JAPAN - MARCH 21: Building debris on March 21, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi-ken, Japan. The 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck offshore on March 11 at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to ten metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan, and also damaging the Fukushima nuclear plant and threatening a nuclear catastrophe. The death toll continues to rise with numbers of dead and missing exceeding 20,000 in a tragedy not seen since World War II in Japan. (Photo by XINHUA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)