TOKYO —
About 360,000 evacuees continued to endure cold weather Sunday as relief materials including blankets arrived in Japan from overseas following last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighting authorities who have rescued 26,000 people so far continued their relief work, mobilizing 120,000 members.
The number of dead and missing neared 20,000 on Saturday night. As of 11 p.m., the total number of dead and missing stood at 19,399—7,653 deaths and 11,746 unaccounted for, according to the National Police Agency.
The relief materials from 13 economies include 25,000 blankets from Canada, 30,000 packets of boil-in-the-bag fried rice and 230,000 water bottles from South Korea and 500 power generators from Taiwan, according to Japanese authorities.
The number of blankets from overseas has totaled 110,000 and many of the goods from foreign countries for survivors are to help them survive cold weather, they said.
The evacuees included residents from areas near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture who have moved to other prefectures such as Gunma, Niigata and Ibaraki.
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