TOKYO, March 11 -- Prime Minister and His Cabinet issued the following highlight:

I offer with great humility my commemorative address on behalf of the Government at the 2025 Memorial Ceremony for the Great East Japan Earthquake. Fourteen years have now passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. Here in Fukushima, among other places, many irreplaceable lives were lost, and some people remain unaccounted for even today. The colossal earthquake and tsunamis, and also the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company, deprived many Fukushima Prefecture residents of their day-to-day lives. My heart aches in empathy and overflows with sorrow and condolences for those who have lost beloved fami...