Human remains found in Japan's north-east have been identified as those of a six-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing at the end of February, according to the country's National Police Agency.

In the days following the magnitude-9.0 earthquake, three reactors at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant melted down, making the area too dangerously radioactive to search in .

Teeth and fragments of the girl's jaw were discovered in February 2023 in a coastal town in the northern region of Miyagi, a spokesman for the local police told the Agence France-Presse.

"After dental and DNA identification analyses, it was confirmed the remains belong to Natsuse Yamane, female, who was

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