According to the article, more than a quarter million people have been evacuated overall in Japan, and the National Police Agency reports 10,489 people had been confirmed dead and 16,621 were missing.
Prayers out.
As far as the missing, who reports the people missing when entire families get wiped out. There were a lot of older people living in that area that may no have family contact.
Originally, we were told here that all American citizens had been accounted for, now we are learning that a number of them are dead or missing.
Are you attempting to conflate the results of the tsunami with the problems at Daiichi? It certainly appears that way. The dead were from the tsunami, and yet you bring up the deaths in a thread about Daiichi.