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Via Kyodo News:

• 1,597 deaths confirmed; 1,481 people confirmed missing
• The figures exclude about 200 to 300 bodies in Sendai, the capital of hardest-hit Miyagi Prefecture, that have yet to be recovered by police and other workers due to the difficulty of reaching them amid the devastation…

shortformblog:

Josef Oehmen, an MIT scientist with some strong cred, says that the situation in Fukushima isn’t that big a deal. “There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity,” he writes. “By ‘significant’ I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on — say — a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.” He was also very critical of the mainstream media’s coverage of the disaster, going so far as to say some articles had errors in every paragraph (ouch!). Oehman wrote a lengthy piece — initially as a personal e-mail to members of his family — explaining exactly what is going on. Now, the first question, of course, is wether or not this guy is legit. He appears so. He has a Twitter. And a long list of research. Lots of people have read his explanation but it hasn’t been picked up by the mainstream press yet. (Will they pick it up?) Rather than summarize it, we feel you should read everything. It’s pretty well-explained. (thanks Benjamin Harrison) source

The feared death toll in Japan’s catastrophe rose to 20,000 Sunday and the government ordered blackouts to conserve energy as nuclear plants risked meltdown.

Police told The Yomiuri Shimbun Sunday 10,000 residents in the town of Minami-Sanrikucho and another 10,000 in Otsuchicho were missing after Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.

The head of the Miyagi prefectural police said the number of deaths in his province alone would “no doubt be tens of thousands.” [read more]

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