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Disaster’s deadly toll
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Health complications stemming from Japan’s 2011 tsunami have killed more people in one Japanese region than the disaster itself, the local authority said yesterday.
Official figures show that almost three years after the disaster, 1,656 people in Fukushima prefecture have died from stress and other illnesses related to the disaster, compared with 1,607 killed in the initial calamity.
“The biggest problem is the fact that people have been living in temporary conditions for so long,” Hiroyuki Harada, a Fukushima official, said.
Almost three years on, many people remain displaced, whether because their homes around the power plant have not been declared safe or because rebuilding has been slow.
Officials say that as well as those who died in the early stages of the disaster, a growing number are dying from the physical and mental stress of staying at shelters, including through suicide.
“This is different from normal, natural disasters. People who live in shelters are forced to live there, away from their hometowns and villages, where they lived for a long time,” Harada said. “They are forced to live the kinds of lives they are not used to.”
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