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The 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
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54:05Now PlayingFrom 2011, Scott Pelley's report on conditions in northern Japan in the aftermath of the that year's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear power plant radiation crisis. Also from 2011, Bob Simon's visit to Otsuchi, the Japanese town that was inundated by the tsunami. From 2014, Simon's report on the recovery from three years after the earthquake and tsunami. And from 2018, Lesley Stahl's report on how robots are being used to clean up the nuclear disaster at the Daiichi Power Plant seven years after the earthquake and tsunami.
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