March 11th will mark 12 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The number of confirmed deaths and missing persons so far is 22,212, including "earthquake-related deaths" who died in evacuation.
According to the National Police Agency, as of March 1, 9,544 people died
in Miyagi Prefecture ,
4,675 people in Iwate Prefecture
, 1,614 people in Fukushima Prefecture
, and 24 people in Ibaraki Prefecture
. 21 in Chiba
, 7 in Tokyo,
4 each in Kanagawa and Tochigi, 3
in Aomori, 2 in
Yamagata, and
1 each in Hokkaido and Gunma,
for a total of 15,900. It has become.
The number of missing persons is
▽1213 in Miyagi prefecture
, 1110 in Iwate prefecture
, 196 in Fukushima prefecture,
2 in Chiba prefecture, 1
each in Aomori prefecture and Ibaraki prefecture, for
a total of 2523 people. increase.
Since December the year before last, no new bodies have been found or identified.
Of these, in Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima, which suffered the most damage, the identities of 15,777 people, or 99.7% of the people who died, have been confirmed, but the identities of 53 people are still unknown.
At the National Police Agency, in addition to using DNA profiling and a method called "mapping pointing" to estimate the location of the disaster from the location where the body was found, the physical characteristics of the body were reexamined and information was requested to confirm the identity. I want to hurry.
On the other hand, according to the Reconstruction Agency, the number of so-called "earthquake-related deaths" who died due to deterioration of physical condition due to evacuation life was 3789 as of the end of March last year. Including "earthquake-related deaths", the number rises to 22,212.