The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago in Japan rose on Friday to 10,035 people, while the missing are 17,443, according to the latest tally of Japan's police.

Two weeks after the magnitude 9 earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan, the worst natural disaster after World War II, some 250,000 people reside in 1,900 temporary shelters and crisis must be resolved even nuclear plant in Fukushima.

According to official figures, in Miyagi province was 6,097 dead, 3,025 Iwate and Fukushima 855, while the missing number in the thousands in those areas most devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.