
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, July 19, 1993                   TAG: 9307190033
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

JAPANESE DEATHS NOW SET AT 175

Nearly a week after a major earthquake and huge waves lashed northern Japan, the death toll has reached 175 and 69 people remain missing, police reported Sunday.

Police divers recovered nine more bodies Sunday from the tons of flotsam that clog the shores of Okushiri, an island near Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island.

More than 500 police and self-defense force troops have been in Okushiri since the earthquake to help islanders.

Virtually all of the deaths occurred in Okushiri, which was hit by several tsunami waves immediately after the earthquake of 7.8 on the Richter scale July 12.

Keywords:
FATALITY

by CNB