A man lights a candle to mourn for victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami prior to a special memorial event in Tokyo Friday, March 11, 2016. Japanese gathered in Tokyo and along the country’s ravaged northeast coast to observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. Friday, exactly five years after a powerful earthquake struck offshore and triggered a devastating tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people. (AP Photo/ Eugene Hoshiko)