Closure has yet to come to parents still searching for their children five years after a triple disaster on Japan's northeastern coast.

In March 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and towering tsunami tore through the area, triggering a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant nearby.

Nearly 16,000 people were killed, and more than 2,500 left missing.

The radiation that forced survivors to leave, is still high in the exclusion zone.

People searching for family, like Kimura, can only come to this beach 30 times a year and stay for five hours.   

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