Japan has mobilized 100,000 troops on Saturday and rescue personnel to provide assistance to survivors of the earthquake that struck Japan on Friday and triggered a tsunami. The National Police has risen to nearly 900 the number of dead. The official death toll from the devastating earthquake on Friday in the northeastern coast of Japan has now reached 801 and 678 are missing, according to the latest count provided today by the police.
That number will nevertheless increased over the hours as local authorities in several provinces have warned that thousands of people are unaccounted for in several villages devastated by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. While rescue workers sifting through debris and rescuing survivors trapped on rooftops of houses almost submerged, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has warned that this first day was crucial search to find survivors.
"I found the vast extent of tsunami damage," said the prime minister after traveling by helicopter scenes of devastation left by the disaster. "The residential areas have been completely washed away [for water] in many coastal areas and the fire was continuing in other areas," he said. All the Self Defense Forces (the name of Japan's military) on Saturday headed toward the Pacific coast of the archipelago, where the earthquake has left hundreds dead and missing.
Some 190 aircraft and 25 ships have been deployed for search tasks, in which the U.S. will work with its vessels to transport troops from the Self-Defense Forces. According to WHO, in addition to those killed some 1,040 people injured and 645 would also continue to have disappeared (figure Kyodo news agency rises up 1,000) after the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale, according to the agency.
United Nations, based on data from the Japanese Government, said that 51,207 people were evacuated in the Fukushima area where the earthquake was damaged nuclear plant. According to a WHO spokesman in Geneva, at the moment there is a slight risk to the population. Japanese police reported the recovery of at least 400 bodies, while more than 800 people are missing.
The government fears that the death toll exceeds 1,000, the cabinet secretary said Japan, Yukio Edan. So far, the most confirmed deaths, between 200 and 300 are of the bodies found on Friday on a beach in Sendai, and another 200 corpses are those that were transferred to Iwanuma gyms and Natori, all in the province of Miyagase .
The Government does not rule out that the numbers increase. In fact, authorities in Miyagi prefecture, northeast of the country, have no news from the tsunami of nearly 10,000 people in the port town of Minamisanriku, reported television channel NHK. This represents more than half of the town's population of about 17,000 inhabitants, on the other hand aims to Kyodo.
In Minamisanriku waves were recorded up to 10 meters and almost no buildings left standing or have not been inundated by floodwaters. According to a provincial spokesman, has not been able to contact 9,500 people. The search efforts continue. The minister spokesman Yukio Edan, estimated during a meeting of the emergency committee in Tokyo that "we think over a thousand people have been killed" by the quake, the "biggest since the Meiji era" in the late nineteenth century, from data are recorded.
There are at least 3,400 buildings destroyed by the earthquake in Japan that also killed at least 200 fires. In the eastern province of Iwate, some cities were practically wiped off the map by the tsunami triggered by the earthquake, with waves up to 10 meters high. Amid reports of villages razed and victims also came some good news, like the miraculous rescues at an elementary school Watari, and 81 from a boat shipwrecked swept away by the tsunami were found safe and sound. 
That number will nevertheless increased over the hours as local authorities in several provinces have warned that thousands of people are unaccounted for in several villages devastated by the tsunami that followed the earthquake. While rescue workers sifting through debris and rescuing survivors trapped on rooftops of houses almost submerged, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has warned that this first day was crucial search to find survivors.
"I found the vast extent of tsunami damage," said the prime minister after traveling by helicopter scenes of devastation left by the disaster. "The residential areas have been completely washed away [for water] in many coastal areas and the fire was continuing in other areas," he said. All the Self Defense Forces (the name of Japan's military) on Saturday headed toward the Pacific coast of the archipelago, where the earthquake has left hundreds dead and missing.
Some 190 aircraft and 25 ships have been deployed for search tasks, in which the U.S. will work with its vessels to transport troops from the Self-Defense Forces. According to WHO, in addition to those killed some 1,040 people injured and 645 would also continue to have disappeared (figure Kyodo news agency rises up 1,000) after the earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale, according to the agency.
United Nations, based on data from the Japanese Government, said that 51,207 people were evacuated in the Fukushima area where the earthquake was damaged nuclear plant. According to a WHO spokesman in Geneva, at the moment there is a slight risk to the population. Japanese police reported the recovery of at least 400 bodies, while more than 800 people are missing.
The government fears that the death toll exceeds 1,000, the cabinet secretary said Japan, Yukio Edan. So far, the most confirmed deaths, between 200 and 300 are of the bodies found on Friday on a beach in Sendai, and another 200 corpses are those that were transferred to Iwanuma gyms and Natori, all in the province of Miyagase .
The Government does not rule out that the numbers increase. In fact, authorities in Miyagi prefecture, northeast of the country, have no news from the tsunami of nearly 10,000 people in the port town of Minamisanriku, reported television channel NHK. This represents more than half of the town's population of about 17,000 inhabitants, on the other hand aims to Kyodo.
In Minamisanriku waves were recorded up to 10 meters and almost no buildings left standing or have not been inundated by floodwaters. According to a provincial spokesman, has not been able to contact 9,500 people. The search efforts continue. The minister spokesman Yukio Edan, estimated during a meeting of the emergency committee in Tokyo that "we think over a thousand people have been killed" by the quake, the "biggest since the Meiji era" in the late nineteenth century, from data are recorded.
There are at least 3,400 buildings destroyed by the earthquake in Japan that also killed at least 200 fires. In the eastern province of Iwate, some cities were practically wiped off the map by the tsunami triggered by the earthquake, with waves up to 10 meters high. Amid reports of villages razed and victims also came some good news, like the miraculous rescues at an elementary school Watari, and 81 from a boat shipwrecked swept away by the tsunami were found safe and sound.
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