Elderly account for 90 percent of disaster-related deaths

About 90 percent of 1,263 "disaster-related deaths" in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear crisis were elderly people aged 70 and older, the Reconstruction Agency said Aug. 21 in a final report.

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