Japan Tsunami Toll

The death count from Japan's New Year's Day earthquake topped 100 on Saturday with more than 200 people still missing, the country's deadliest quake in nearly eight years.

Japan earthquake death count: The death count in Japan has now risen to 57 following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation on Monday, NHK World reported, citing officials from Ishikawa prefecture.

Japan Earthquake: At least thirty people died as a series of earthquakes struck central Japan on New Year's Day, damaging homes and sparking a major fire.

The official death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami passed the 10,000 mark Friday and was still climbing two weeks after the magnitude-9 quake struck off the northeastern coast and unleashed a cascade of disasters.Hundreds of thousands of survivors are still camped out in temporary shelters. Some 660,000 households do not have w...

Temporary morgues have been set up in the wrecked remains of public buildings in tsunami-devastated Japan's northeast as rescue workers continued a search for survivors on Wednesday.In the town of Higashi Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, where the tsunami struck hard, a school gymnasium has become a temporary resting place for the dead.Desperate su...

Vast areas in Japan have been left unrecognisable by the devastation caused by Friday's quake and tsunami. The coastline of Miyagi prefecture was one of the worst-hit regions.Police estimated 10-thousand dead among the 2.3 million people who lived in the prefecture, the Japanese equivalent of a state.South of Miyagis capital Sendai, near the epicen...

Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the nuclear crisis it unleashed. The National Police Agency said Tuesday afternoon that, so far, 2,722 people were confirmed to have died in the earthquake and tsunami, and many thousands remained missing....

Although the situation in Japan continues to be worrisome in the nuclear aftermath of the earthquake fed tsunami, city-based Japanese nationals hope that the country would soon get back on its feet. For 73 year-old Teruko Matsuoka, a Bangalore-based Japanese homemaker, this is not the first disaster that the country has experienced. During her chil...

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said on Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverised northeastern coast.Although the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 1,00,000, it se...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake ...

Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor.Prime Minister Naoto Kan said 50,000 troops would join rescue and recovery efforts following Friday's ...

The death count from Japan's New Year's Day earthquake topped 100 on Saturday with more than 200 people still missing, the country's deadliest quake in nearly eight years.

Japan earthquake death count: The death count in Japan has now risen to 57 following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that rattled the nation on Monday, NHK World reported, citing officials from Ishikawa prefecture.

Japan Earthquake: At least thirty people died as a series of earthquakes struck central Japan on New Year's Day, damaging homes and sparking a major fire.

The official death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami passed the 10,000 mark Friday and was still climbing two weeks after the magnitude-9 quake struck off the northeastern coast and unleashed a cascade of disasters.Hundreds of thousands of survivors are still camped out in temporary shelters. Some 660,000 households do not have w...

Temporary morgues have been set up in the wrecked remains of public buildings in tsunami-devastated Japan's northeast as rescue workers continued a search for survivors on Wednesday.In the town of Higashi Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, where the tsunami struck hard, a school gymnasium has become a temporary resting place for the dead.Desperate su...

Vast areas in Japan have been left unrecognisable by the devastation caused by Friday's quake and tsunami. The coastline of Miyagi prefecture was one of the worst-hit regions.Police estimated 10-thousand dead among the 2.3 million people who lived in the prefecture, the Japanese equivalent of a state.South of Miyagis capital Sendai, near the epicen...

Anxiety mounted in Japan on Tuesday as the country struggled to come to grips with the scope of the natural disaster that struck last Friday and the nuclear crisis it unleashed. The National Police Agency said Tuesday afternoon that, so far, 2,722 people were confirmed to have died in the earthquake and tsunami, and many thousands remained missing....

Although the situation in Japan continues to be worrisome in the nuclear aftermath of the earthquake fed tsunami, city-based Japanese nationals hope that the country would soon get back on its feet. For 73 year-old Teruko Matsuoka, a Bangalore-based Japanese homemaker, this is not the first disaster that the country has experienced. During her chil...

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said on Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverised northeastern coast.Although the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 1,00,000, it se...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake ...

Japan launched a massive military rescue operation Saturday after a giant, quake-fed tsunami killed hundreds of people and turned the northeastern coast into a swampy wasteland, while authorities braced for a possible meltdown at a nuclear reactor.Prime Minister Naoto Kan said 50,000 troops would join rescue and recovery efforts following Friday's ...