Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani said he was not only filled with sadness and deep pain after meeting survivors of the March 11, 2011, disasters in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, last week, but was also moved by their courage to move forward and rebuild their devastated region.
Hit with a triple disaster — the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant — the victims are still trying to rebuild lives that were torn apart one year ago.
King Mohamed VI of Morocco was quick to offer his condolences to Emperor Akihito, and a team from the Moroccan Embassy in Tokyo went to Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, to deliver food and other relief goods soon after the disasters struck.