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Monday, March 14, 2011
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Local residents walk through a street in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture on March 13, 2011 following a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
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Japan quake-tsunami death toll likely over 10,000 Associated Press Writer
TAGAJO, Japan – The death toll in Japan’s earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone, an official said Sunday, as millions of survivors were left without drinking water, electricity and proper food along the pulverized northeastern coast.
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FUKUSHIMA, Japan, March 13 – Japan fought on Sunday to avert a meltdown at two earthquakecrippled nuclear reactors, describing the massive quake and tsunami, which may have killed more than 10,000 people, as the nation’s biggest crisis since World War Two. The world’s third-largest economy is struggling to respond to a disaster of epic proportions,
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future would be decided by the response to this crisis. Although the government doubled the number of soldiers de-
ployed in the aid effort to 100,000, it seemed overwhelmed by what’s turning out to be a triple disaster: Friday’s quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant on the coast, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. The police chief of Miyagi prefecture, or state, told a gathering of
disaster relief officials that his estimate for deaths was more than 10,000, police spokesman Go Sugawara told The Associated Press. Miyagi has a population of 2.3 million and is one of the three prefectures hardest hit in Friday’s disaster. Only 379 people have officially been confirmed dead in Miyagi. Continued on page 6
Japan tries to avert nuclear meltdown with more than 1 million without water or power and whole towns wiped off the map. “The earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear incident have been the biggest crisis Japan encountered in the 65 years since the end of World War II,” a grim-faced Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a news conference. “We’re under scrutiny on whether we, the Japanese people, can overcome this crisis.” Continued on page 6
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Smoke billows from fires raging at the port in Tagajo, Miyagi prefecture on March 13, 2011.