Hikari Oyama plays with bubbles after she and her grandmother paid their respects at the memorial to victims of last year's tsunami at the Okawa Elementary School, where 74 children were killed and 4 are still missing, on March 11. Last year's earthquake and subsequent tsunami left 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing, according to Japan's National Police Agency. One year on, the areas affected continue to struggle.

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