The number of victims who are confirmed dead or missing in Japan exceeded 25,000, on Wednesday (23 / 3), 12 days after a devastating earthquake followed by tsunami struck the northeastern coast of Sakura Affairs.
There are fears the death toll much higher again in the disaster, which destroyed the cities of the region's beaches on the island of Honshu.
Japan's National Police said the 9487 people were confirmed dead and 15 617 recorded lost - until Wednesday at 21:00 (at 19:00). As many as 2755 people were injured by the disaster on 11 March.
The earthquake was the deadliest natural disaster in Japan since the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that killed more than 142,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced and took shelter in refugee camps after the disaster.
Large tsunami occurred after a devastating earthquake Agency said March 11 that the U.S. has the strength of 8.9 quake on the Richter scale, Japan's strongest earthquake in history/
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