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| School gymnasium visited in Dec. '11 |
earthquake/tsunami/nuclear plant disaster came to 30,000, but you would have to count missing persons, unreported deaths, injuries, and some deaths counted twice to get that number. The actual number of reported deaths were about 53% of that. But 15,874 is still terribly,
tragically
high.
Kinya let me know the number 30,000 was another Japanese statistic though: the number of deaths per year by suicide.
And he checked with his computer and told me that there were 1,100,000-1,200,000 deaths in Japan every year, when accidents, murders, natural causes were figured in.
That sounded much, much too high. Maybe it's the way numbers are said in Japanese, and I hadn't heard him right.
"You can't mean there are 3,000-3,280 people dying every day?" (I really expected Kinya to let me know what he had said was 110,000-120,000.) But he didn't correct me.
"Sounds about right," he said; "after all, Japan's population is over 127,000,000."
About 1/2 of 1% of them claim Christianity.
