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.
MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti)
