The estimated death toll for the March 11, 2011 earthquake is 12,690.
>10,000
As of 31 March 2011 it is in excess of 12,000.
the death toll is 230,000
well considering the death toll was over 100,000 lives, it was pretty bad.
The death toll from the Sendai earthquake continues to climb. Currently more than 5,300 are dead (as of 3/17) and more than 8,000 people are still missing. This answer will continue to be updated and is expected to top 10,000.
If you mean the 2011 Tohoku earthquake which struck Japan, the death toll is at 14,416 while there are still 11,889 people missing.
Better warning systems and improved construction techniques .
500,000
On the rector scale it was 8.8.It was then upgraded to 8.9,and lastly it was upgraded to 9.0 bringing the death toll to more then 21,000 in Japan.
The death toll is said to be more than 1,700 and more than 10,000 are missing.
If you are referring to the one in Japan recently (11/3/2011) the final death toll is not known, but it is likely to be in the tens of thousands.
the death toll happened to be 237,418 people.......