Japan's earthquake death toll set to hit 25,000 as it emerges ANOTHER town has 10,000 people missing --Ishinomaki confirms the huge number of its citizens missing --North Eastern port town was hit by 20ft tsunami 16 Mar 2011 The terrible toll of Japan's double disaster became clearer today as it emerged as many as 25,000 people could be dead. As rescue crews trawled through mile after mile of tsunami-stricken wasteland, officials from the coastal town of Ishinomaki confirmed that 10,000 of their citizens were missing. The unimaginable figure is the same given as in the town of Minamisanriku, also in Miyagi state, which lost around half its population when it was razed to the ground by the 20 foot high wall of water.