March 17 (Bloomberg) — The death toll following a
magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11
rose to 5,457 people as of 6 p.m. local time, according to the
National Police Agency in Tokyo. The following table breaks the
numbers down by prefecture:
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Hokkaido 1
Aomori 3
Iwate 1,824
Miyagi 3,004
Yamagata 1
Fukushima 574
Tokyo 7
Ibaraki 19
Tochigi 4
Gunma 1
Chiba 16
Kanagawa 3
Total Missing 9,508
Injured 2,409
Evacuated 386,980