Japan marks the second anniversary of the huge earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of people.
The giant wave also hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, triggering the world's worst nuclear disaster in a generation.
Two years on, more than 150 thousand of Fukushima residents still can't return to their homes.
Being stuck in limbo isn't the only challenge they face - there's also discrimination against people perceived to have been exposed to radiation.
Kneeling before an altar in his living room Tetsuo Imamichi drapes some prayer beads over his clasped hands, shuts his eyes and bows his head.
It's been 68 years since an American B-29 bomber flew high and silently over this city. But Tetsuo Imamichi remembers that morning like it was yesterday.
"I was taking care of my two little brothers at home, making their breakfast and washing up," as he remembers the incident. "Suddenly there was a blue and white flash and a huge boom. The windows shattered and all the furniture went flying. One of my brothers was blown out into the garden. I found the other one in a closet.”
Nine year old Tetsuo Imamichi had survived, even though they were just a few kilometres from the centre of the atomic blast.
Arriving home, the boys' mother gathered up the family and put them on a train to her home town - Nagasaki.
"As we approached Nagasaki the train stopped. They'd just dropped the bomb. We saw people on fire and people dying. Then my five year old brother got sick so we took him to the hospital. As the doctor was seeing him, my brother took a deep breath and he died without saying a word.”
When the bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" levelled Nagasaki, Tetsuo Imamichi was just 3.5 kilometres from the blast.
Now 77, the retired cab driver is just one of a couple of dozen people who've been confirmed as double atomic bomb survivors.
But like most, Tetsuo Imamichi never spoke about his terrible experiences. But that changed when the reactors at Fukushima melted down two years ago.
“There are bad rumours about Fukushima and they won't go away. I worry the people of Fukushima will be discriminated against, just like we were. I have a reunion with survivors every year and one of my friends says she could never marry because people said she would only produce children who were deformed and disfigured.”
In the two years since the Fukushima disaster there have been reports of evacuees being discriminated against because of their possible exposure.
Even a government minister was forced to resign after joking to reporters after a visit to the plant that he was radioactive and would give them radiation.
For the 154,000 Fukushima people still living in so-called temporary homes two years on from the meltdowns, there's certainly nothing to laugh at.
And for atomic bomb survivors like Tetsuo Imamichi, he can offer them only his wisdom and his prayers.
