11. März 2011 - 11. März 2014 Fukushima in Nordostjapan
The Japan Times, March 8, 2014

Still hunting shadows three years after 3/11

BY JUN HONGO, STAFF WRITER

One of the great statistical mysteries that persist several years after a natural disaster is the figure that appears without fail each month in columns representing the number of people that are still missing.

Almost three years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated coastal regions in Tohoku on March 11, 2011, a total of 2,636 people remain missing as of February, statistics released by the National Police Agency show. More than 15,800 were killed.