Tohoku coast -- Focus on Survivors

It's hard sometimes to think about statistics when peoples' lives are involved, but I found the data below heartening. Despite the widespread devastation in these towns, preliminary data show that really, most people survived. Early statistics used the total population of these towns, but these data attempt to count only the part of the population that was in the inundated area. The table is ordered from most to least casualities (= dead plus missing). I added the survivors columns, which therefore are ordered from least to most survivors, top to bottom. So the bad news comes first Preliminary table of survivors within inundated region of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures*
Prefecture	Township	Population within the inundated area (a)	Dead + Missing (b)	% casualites (a)/(b)x100	Survivors	% survivors
Iwate	Otsuchi	7839	1616	20.6	6223	79.4
Iwate	Rikuzen-Takada	13547	2459	18.2	11088	81.8
Miyagi	Onagawa	8816	1504	17.1	7312	82.9
Miyagi	Natori	12132	1873	15.4	10259	84.6
Iwate	Kamaishi	9331	1306	14.0	8025	86.0
Miyagi	Shiogama	173	23	13.3	150	86.7
Fukushima	Minami-Souma	13919	1474	10.6	12445	89.4
Miyagi	Yamamoto	9341	788	8.4	8553	91.6
Miyagi	Minami-Sanriku	13306	1090	8.2	12216	91.8
Iwate	Yamada	11721	911	7.8	10810	92.2
Miyagi	Kesennuma	29648	2138	7.2	27510	92.8
Fukushima	Namie	2749	186	6.8	2563	93.2
Miyagi	Ishinomaki	102670	5520	5.4	97150	94.6
Miyagi	Higashi-Matsushima	32993	1713	5.2	31280	94.8
Fukushima	Souma	9227	408	4.4	8819	95.6
Iwate	Miyako	24937	1083	4.3	23854	95.7
Iwate	Tanohata	1075	38	3.5	1037	96.5
Iwate	Ofunato	15500	494	3.2	15006	96.8
Fukushima	Futaba	1061	32	3.0	1029	97.0
Fukushima	Shinchi	4258	118	2.8	4140	97.2
Miyagi	Iwanuma	7310	183	2.5	7127	97.5
Fukushima	Okuma	1053	24	2.3	1029	97.7
Miyagi	Watari	13186	284	2.2	12902	97.8
TOTAL		345792	25265	7.3	320527	92.7
						Average survival rate within inundated area: 92.7%
Statistics Bureau & Director-General for Policy Planning of Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications
released "Populations and Number of families within the Expected Inundation Areas" in Japanese.
http://www.stat.go.jp/data/chiri/map/index.htm
Inundation areas are estimated by aerial and satellite photos; not the survey on site.
*The table prepared by Yamamoto, Masahiro (Jody B. added survivor columns).