Japanese police have still been carrying out searches for the missing even after nearly two years since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country's north-east, reports from Tokyo said. About 100 police officers took part in the searches in Miyagi prefecture on Monday, one month ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster that left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing.
Police say 1,314 people are still unaccounted for in Miyagi alone, one of the worst-hit prefectures. Police officers, assisted by local officials combed the coasts of an uninhabited island off Minamisanriku town after they found remains of a victim on another uninhabited island in last September.
Japan's NHK broadcaster quoted police officer Katsuo Mori as saying that they were working hard to find victims and their personal effects.
The March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami had also knocked out the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant run by one of Asia's biggest power utility sending out radiation that forced the evacuation of more than 160,000 residents in a 30-kilometer radius of the plant.
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