In tears, in prayers

Participants observe a moment of silence at 2:46 local time, the time when the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's coast in 2011, during a rally in Tokyo. Japan yesterday mourned in silence the thousands who lost their lives in a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 that turned towns to matchwood and triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Photo: Reuters, AFP