The death toll from the latest destructive earthquake in Japan jumped to 202, the government announced on Tuesday.
It added that the number of confirmed injuries jumped to 565.
A strong earthquake hit central Japan, last week to be one the earliest major headlines for 2024. The earthquake destroyed a lot of buildings, in addition to power cuts of thousands of homes, and the evacuation of thousands of the coastal areas after threats of tsunami.
The quake was 7.6 magnitude and it triggered waves of about 1 metre along Japan's west coast and South Korea.
After the earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued tsunami warnings for Ishikawa, Niigata, and Toyama.
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