Japan: A Week in Crisis

By diplomat_admin March 18, 2011

A massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant crisis. Japan faces what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has described as the country’s darkest hour since World War II. The Diplomat looks back in pictures on how the week unfolded.

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