行方不明、なお２５２５人　東日本大震災１０年―警察庁

　警察庁は９日、東日本大震災から１０年となるのを前に、１日現在の人的被害状況を発表した。死者は、宮城県で４日に遺体の身元が判明した女性を含め、１２都道県で１万５９００人。行方不明者は６県で２５２５人に上る。
　１日現在の行方不明者は、宮城１２１５人、岩手１１１１人、福島１９６人。死者は宮城９５４３人、岩手４６７５人、福島１６１４人。
　昨年３月から今年２月に身元が確認された遺体は宮城２人、岩手１人の計３人。いずれも震災が起きた２０１１年に見つかり、身元を特定できていなかった。（2021/03/09-17:25）

The number of missing people from the March 2011 major earthquake and tsunami, which mainly struck the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, stood at 2,525 in six prefectures as of March 1 this year, the National Police Agency said Tuesday.
   Of the total, 1,215 are from Miyagi Prefecture, 1,111 from Iwate Prefecture and 196 from Fukushima Prefecture. The three prefectures, all in Tohoku, were hit hardest by the March 11 disaster.
   Meanwhile, the death toll from the quake and tsunami came to 15,900 in 12 prefectures as of the beginning of this month, including a woman whose remains were identified in Miyagi on Thursday. The number of deaths stood at 9,543 in Miyagi, 4,675 in Iwate and 1,614 in Fukushima.
   Between March last year and February this year, three remains were identified as being those of people who went missing in the disaster, with two of the remains in Miyagi and one in Iwate. All three bodies were discovered in 2011, but had not been identified.
   In the identification process, police studied the physical characteristics of the remains and analyzed their mitochondrial DNA, which is maternally inherited. Based on accumulated data, the police also used the method known as "mapping pointing," in which the sites of the remains' discovery are used to estimate the locations in which the victims experienced the disaster.