Japan seeks ‘recovery of people’s hearts’ a decade after quake disaster

Nearly half a million people were displaced, and tens of thousands still have not returned home after the earthquake a decade ago.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant reactors. Picture: Kyodo News/AP

Ten years after Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the lives of many who survived are still on hold.

On March 11 2011, one of the biggest quakes on record touched off a massive tsunami, killing more than 18,000 people and setting off catastrophic meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.