article_snippet: The National Police Agency said a total of 15,891 people are confirmed to have died in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, with another 2,584 listed as missing.
article_snippet: In the background, crushed cars and the remains of flattened houses still litter the landscape.
article_snippet: Despite government pledges of billions of dollars in reconstruction aid, progress in disaster-hit regions has been slow.
article_snippet: Some communities remain ghost towns, and thousands of disaster refugees struggle to cope.
article_snippet: According to the government, nearly 230,000 people are still displaced - many of nearly 230,000 people by the nuclear disaster - including 80,000 living in temporary housing. '
article_snippet: Despite continuing hardships in the disaster-hit region, scholars and journalists have said that memories of the catastrophe are fading in the rest of the nation.
highlights_snippet: Some 15,891 confirmed to have died in disaster, with another 2,584 listed as missing, according to police records .
  