KUMAMOTO -- Ceremonies were held across Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the first of two earthquakes that occurred 28 hours apart and killed 276 people.
The disaster was the first time on record in Japan that Level 7, the highest intensity on the Japanese seismic scale, was registered twice during the same series of seismic activity.
At the Kiyama temporary housing complex, home to 152 people in 52 households in Mashiki in the prefecture, residents and others lit bamboo lanterns to commemorate the dead on Wednesday evening.
A memorial ceremony was also held at the Kumamoto prefectural government building.
"We will continue to provide support to those affected by the earthquakes until the last person has rebuilt their lives," Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima said at the ceremony.
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