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1 year later, Cyndi Lauper urges support for Japan

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

** FILE ** A young girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay on Sunday, March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

Japan marks anniversary of quake, tsunami

By Malcolm Foster and Miki Toda - Associated Press

An open area in front of a temporary shopping complex in the devastated city of Kesennuma, Japan, serves as the site of a candlelit memorial to those killed in the earthquake and tsunami on March, 11, 2011. (Associated Press)

Japan remembers horrific quake, tsunami

By Miki Toda and Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Japan beats Taiwan in earthquake charity game

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Briefly: China’s secret detentions restricted - on paper

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

Panel: U.S. should rethink emergency plans for nuke plants

By Dina Cappiello and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Theater artists nationwide unite for Japan benefit

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

Texas right-hander Yu Darvish threw 36 pitches, 26 for strikes, against a San Diego split squad. (Associated Press)

Yu Darvish shines in his first appearance with Rangers

Associated Press

**FILE** Workers build temporary housing for tsunami and radiation evacuees in Hirono, just outside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan, on Feb. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

With cherry-blossom time less than a month away, tiny buds are forming on the 1,678 cherry trees around the Tidal Basin. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

FEULNER: A century of cherry blossoms

By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray speaks during a news conference at the Newseum to discuss plans for this year's National Cherry Blossom Festival. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Special to The Washington Times)

Early blossoms for festival centennial

By Christy Armstrong - The Washington Times

Japanese All-Star game to be played in Fukushima

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

Sony says it has sold 1.2M of the PlayStation Vita

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Tsunami debris reaches halfway across Pacific

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

Scientists discuss latest tsunami debris forecast

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

1-5 pct. of tsunami debris could reach N. America

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press