JapanOn March 11, 2011, a 9. 0 earthquake off Japans northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the worlds third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US driven financial