In the largest rescue operation in this country ever carried out 18,000 Japanese researchers joined was of 7,000 American military in an operation to scour employs 120 helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft and 65 ships a coastal strip stretches from the northern tip of the Prefecture of Iwate at the southern end of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
"There are more than 16,000 people are still as is listed missing," said Minako Sawamura, a spokeswoman for the ground self defense forces headquarters in Sendai. "So that we all work together - land, sea and units of the armed forces themselves, together with the Marines and Navy, the police, fire department, coast guard units."
"So far," she said, "has focused the search on the search for survivors ashore." But the tsunami many people with it if it washed back into the sea. "So make efforts from the air, including those people we find." The search could help effort closure to the families of 16,464 people bring the Agency policy as missing lists. With the tsunami, whole villages on the coast north of Tokyo, wiped out many have can be found never. The number of the dead is now at 11,620, police said.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan took a step in the direction of the turn Friday afternoon, said at a press conference that his Cabinet had decided, the disaster would be officially known as "the great East Japan earthquake".
"We need to on a long struggle, to be prepared," Mr Kan said, "but we get the job done."
In another symbolic gesture to show the changing emphasis in Tokyo, Yukio Edano, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, showed up for a press conference on Friday morning for the first time since the disaster March 11 met jackets dressed in normal business attire, he has appeared in a blue work had officials moved to the seriousness of the situation.
"We want to show that the Government of the future is looking for, taking into account the reconstruction plans," said Mr Edano on statement.
The Japanese are still distracted by the drama of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, 140 km north of Tokyo. Several reactors at the plant were designed by the quake, shut down, as they were to do, but had knocked out their cooling systems by the tsunami that followed. A magnitude of 9.0, it was the largest earthquake ever measured in Japan.
Since March 11, has the plant fires and explosions in several reactors maintained, and radiation leaks - including in the sea near the plant. The operator of that plant, Tokyo electric power company, said this week of four damaged blocks would be scrapped.
Workers have to reduce spraying water on the reactors and their spent fuel pools for several weeks until temperatures as they try to restore the cooling systems. This work is as well as where the radiation leaks to answer, the turbine connected hampered efforts to the crucial question buildings on reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 by the accumulation of highly radioactive water.
Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman of Tokyo electric power, said an afternoon press conference, which was successfully, continue to the pumps of the contaminated water even though he offered no timeline for completion of the work.
Tokyo electric power said late Thursday that the groundwater in the vicinity of the installation also, potentially was contaminated because rain or radioactive substance in the soil had washed the spraying operations. The company first said the radiation was 10,000 times the normal level, then later an own data in question. It did the same with a report that the level of iodine-131 in sea water in the vicinity of the plant had fallen the statutory limit to more than 4,000 times on Thursday under 2,000 times.
On Friday, Hidehiko Nishiyama, Deputy Head of the Japanese nuclear and industrial Agency, a press conference, said that the Government had questions about the company figures and ITTO had asked review the data.
With the company before unknown but potentially huge liabilities arising from the radioactive fallout from the plant and the evacuation of the area around the plant, is the share price in free fall and its debt rating under attack by credit rating agencies, put their survival in doubt.
Mr Kan said Friday for the first time, "I want to insist as a private company." That leaves open the possibility of State aid, but will help to calm talk of a nationalization of the utility, that to as the world's largest company current place to the disaster ripped billions of dollars from his market value.
Tokyo electric power plans now, whether a resin, used usually for high and civil engineering plant against the spread of their radioactive dust can be distributed applications such as landfills and road surfaces on the debris to the power plant. A test for the resin, known as Kuricoat, for Thursday planned was interrupted by rain.
In the meantime have the aftershocks that have rocked the area of the quake zone by Tokyo, adding the fear, falling down slowly in number. The Japan Meteorological Agency, the seismological data to Friday title its forecast of 20 percent of the probability that an aftershock magnitude 5.0 or higher take the region over the next few days would lowered to 10 percent.
There were 384 aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or higher since March 11, the Agency said.
Makiko Inoue, Ken Ijichi, Moshe comma and Chika Oshima contributed reporting.
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