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245— Cost in billions of dollars of the post disaster reconstruction package.

15,846— Number of dead.

3,320— People still missing.

2— Number of missing people found dead this year.

240— Number of orphans in the three most severely affected prefectures, Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.

16— Million tons of disaster waste in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas of Japan.

2.4— Drop in millions of tourists to Japan in 2011 from a year previously.

6— Approximate months lost in the average life expectancy for a Japanese woman following the disasters, down from 86.4 years in 2010 to 85.9 in 2011.

3— Approximate months lost in the average life expectancy for a Japanese man, down from 79.5 years in 2010 to 79.27 in 2011.

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