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A man is pictured on the empty streets of Tokyo a few days after last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Could there be worse to come? Pic: AP.

One year on: Is Tokyo still waiting for the Big One?

By Mon, Mar 12, 2012 6:18PM UTC 1 Comment A man is pictured on the empty streets of Tokyo a few days after last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Could there be worse to come? Pic: AP.

Maybe the Fukushima earthquake wasn’t the worst of it, writes Asia Sentinel’s Todd Crowell A year after the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated the northwest coast, wiping out villages, killing an estimated 20,000 people and precipitating multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo’s 35 million residents are getting a severe...

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