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Japan is marking the fifth anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,000 dead or missing.

A minute’s silence will be held across Japan at 2:46pm (5:46 GMT), the time the quake hit.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito will offer flowers at a memorial ceremony in Tokyo.

The magnitude-9.0 quake struck offshore, creating a vast water surge that devastated Japan’s north-east.

It also triggered the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, after the tsunami knocked out power to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, taking cooling systems offline, which set off a series of meltdowns.

The subsequent disaster spewed radiation over a wide area and forced the evacuation of more than 160,000 local people. Most of them have not been able to return to their homes, despite extensive decontamination work.

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