The confirmed death toll from last Friday`s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan has risen to 6,405, police told Kyodo news on Friday.
Police say 10,259 people still remain missing.
Emergency workers continue aerial and ground-level dousing of water on reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to try and avert a meltdown of nuclear cores, but say progress is slow.
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