On March 21st Iwate Nichinichi shimbun, local newspaper in Ichinoseki, reported on its top page that more than 2,000,000 people might be left dead or missing by the quake and the tsunami, and about 350,000 people were staying in evacuation centers.
On September 11th the paper reported that according to the police 19,867 people were left dead or missing up to September 10th.
Total: 15,781 dead, 4,086 missing
Iwate: 4,656 dead, 1,692 missing
Miyagi: 9,456 dead, 2,149 missing
Fukushima: 1,603 dead, 241 missing
The paper also reported that still 6,800 people live in evacuation centers.
Those numbers means a lot.
