I te 11 o Poutu-te-rangi 2011, he ruu i te takutai o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa o Tohoku
I puta he tsunami kaha i pā ki ngā rohe o Miyagi, Iwate, me Fukushima. I arahina te aitua ki nga ngoikoretanga i te Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a na te aitua karihi o Fukushima Daiichi.