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TOKYO: The official number of dead and missing after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has hit 14,650, police said Thursday, a rise of nearly 1,000 in just a few hours.

The number of confirmed dead from Friday's twin disasters rose to 5,321, while the official number of missing increased to 9,329, the national police agency said in its latest update.

A total of 2,383 people were injured in the disaster.

But reports have indicated that the final toll could be much higher.

The mayor of the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture said late Wednesday that the number of missing there was likely to hit 10,000, Kyodo News reported.

On Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported that around 10,000 people were unaccounted for in the port town of Minamisanriku in the same prefecture.

Amid a mass rescue effort there were grim updates indicating severe loss of life along the battered east coast of Honshu island, where the monster waves destroyed or damaged more than 55,380 homes and other buildings.
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Yea, stop making smart ass posts to try and get rep, you'd regret it if you knew what it was like for them asshole

Hey, asshole, go take your comments to someone who actually cares about what you say.

The Japanese earthquake is no laughing matter; hundreds of thousands of people are assumed missing, or dead. You could be related to a Japanese, (ancestry) and just imagine if he/she died. Imagine if your best mate was a Japanese person who died? Imagine if your PARENTS were Japanese and they died? Imagine you being Japanese and seeing this huge torrent of water come & sweep you away, forcing you to breathe underwater, whilst your lungs collapse and fill in with water.

GTFO, kid.

I don't care about rep. It is a stupid number, -rep me idaf. It is a hilarious joke.

Hows it hilarious? What if you were in their situation:derp::derp::derp:

I am not cause I live in Canada and bad shit does not happen up here.

So just because it isn't you, you shouldn't care for the others around you? If that's the case then you're a horrible person.

Damn 14000+ People missing or dead....Sad

Damn, Respect to japan.

Hope it gets better, but with all the news about the Nuclear Reactor, it's not looking so good.