TOKYO -- When rising temperatures threatened a catastrophe at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant days after a devastating earthquake in March 2011, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan finally decided to deploy the Self-Defense Forces.
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U.S. Marines return to Okinawa after completing their relief mission under "Operation Tomodachi" in northeastern Japan, which was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, in April 2011. © Kyodo
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