More than 2,000 bodies landed on the Japanese coast

Today, rescuers found about 2,000 corpses on two shores of Miyagi prefecture after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, while Japan is bracing itself against a historical disaster.

About 1,000 bodies were found on the coast of Ojika peninsula in Miyagi prefecture, the most devastated place in the tsunami. Nearly 1,000 bodies were left in the coastal city of Minamisanriku, where the government lost contact with about 10,000 people, equivalent to half of the city's population.

A devastated woman looked at the ruined scene in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Photo: AP

Finding the number of giant corpses mentioned above will significantly increase the number of people killed in a tsunami of 9.0 on the Richter scale that caused the recent tsunami, compared with the official number of Japanese police announced today there were 1,597 deaths and 1,481 people missing in the northeast.

Meanwhile, in Miyagi prefectural capital, Sendai city, police today also located 200 to 300 new bodies. However, they have not been able to remove these ill-fated victims from the rubble due to hard access. The Miyagi government is also calling for the help of other provinces in the cremation of the victims' bodies.

Around 450,000 people in Miyagi and five other provinces in northeastern Japan had to evacuate. In many places they were brought to a serious shortage of drinking water and food, forcing the defense force to use helicopters as a bridge to supply supplies.

According to Kyodo news agency, about 2,500 domestic and foreign tourists are present in the area of ​​earthquake and tsunami on March 11 has not been determined. Therefore, the Japan Tourism Board cannot statistically damage visitors during this disaster.

The failure of nuclear power plants to cease operation after the disaster, pushed northeastern Japan and the region around Tokyo into an unprecedented round of power cuts. This situation is expected to last until the end of April, affecting almost 45 million people in the region.

The 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11 is the most intense seismic record ever recorded in the country's history. A tsunami of 10 meters high then struck coastal areas that caused an unprecedented national disaster in Japan.