‘Love to Nippon’ To Mark 8th Anniversary of Tsunami

“Love to Nippon 2019,” commemorating the eighth anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan, will be held on Sunday, March 10, at 12 p.m. at LAPD Headquarters, 100 W. First St. in Downtown Los Angeles.

The disaster, known in Japan as Higashi Nihon Daishinsai (Great East Japan Earthquake), resulted in nearly 16,000 confirmed deaths, more than 2,500 missing, and more than 200,000 residents displaced, as well as meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

published on March 7, 2019