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278,000 evacuees still

 December 5, 2013

 

278,000 evacuees remain nearly 1,000 days after March 2011 disaster

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131205p2g00m0dm024000c.html

 

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- As many as 278,000 people remained evacuees Nov. 14 as a result of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, the Reconstruction Agency said Wednesday, 1,000 days after the disaster.


The number marked a fall from a peak of about 470,000.


The evacuees include 49,554 who have left Fukushima Prefecture, where the disaster caused a serious nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the agency said.


The earthquake-tsunami disaster killed 15,883 people and left 2,651 others unaccounted for as of Nov. 8. Search for the missing still continues in the tsunami-hit coastal zones.


An additional 2,688 deaths, including those from evacuation-caused health deterioration and suicides, were related to the disaster by the end of March this year.

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