A woman takes part in a moment of silence at 2.46pm local time (0546 GMT) during a rally in Tokyo, yesterday, to mark the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Japan honoured the victims of its worst disaster since World War II yesterday: the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that killed almost 19,000 people and stranded 315,000 evacuees, including refugees who fled radiation from the devastated Fukushima atomic plant.