People across Japan have prayed and stood in silence to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago.

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki's Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

See the areas affected by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan. Use the slider to change the date and time of events, navigate the map and click on the icons to watch the video.

On the day journalists are taken to the Fukushima nuclear plant, devastated by March's tsunami and earthquake, Alex Thomson meets some of the families evacuated to Tokyo in the wake of the disaster.

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Japan's tsunami-hit towns to witness the world's largest recycling operation.

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson takes to the seas with Japan's fishermen whose livelihoods were devastated by the tsunami.

Eight months on from a devastating tsunami, Channel 4 News returns to Japan. Follow our team's journey live on our map with the latest photos, and videos as they travel through the disaster areas.