The death toll from the earthquake and the tsunami made ​​just today, 11 April, a month in the northeastern Japan rose to 13,116 while 14,377 others remain missing, according to the latest tally of Japan's police.

Further, some 2350 refugees continue evacuating about 147,000 people, mostly from the provinces of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, the most affected by the disaster of 11 March.

In coastal areas of these provinces Nipponese troops of the Self Defense Forces and U.S. military conducted a new search Sunday intensive and recovered 99 bodies, while the Coast Guard found four others, reported the local agency Kyodo.

In Miyagi those killed amounted to 8,017 and 6,416 people are unaccounted for, while Iwate is 3,811 dead and 4,721 missing and Fukushima are 1,226 fatalities and 3,236 missing.

The work of searching for victims on Thursday extended the exclusion zone around twenty kilometers Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, at the request of the Government evacuated shortly after the disaster to the increased level of radiation.