Awwal 13, 1432, April 17, 2011, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that America would stand by Japan, saying she was confident the country will fully recover from its tsunami and nuclear disasters. «We are very confident that Japan will recover and will be a very strong economic and global player for years and decades to come,» Clinton told Prime Minister Naoto Kan during a brief visit to Tokyo intended as a morale boost to the crucial U.S. ally. Kan thanked Clinton for U.S. help with the crises triggered by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11 that unleashed a massive tsunami, wrecking cooling and power systems at a nuclear plant that has been leaking radiation ever since, according to a report of the Associated Press. «We will never forget and we will keep in our memory that the U.S. has provided such robust support,» said Kan Hillary Clinton, who called Japan's well-being a «bedrock priority,» also met with the Japanese emperor and empress. She was due to return to the U.S. later Sunday.
