Chief Cabinet Secretary Kannoe Uni said at a press conference the same evening on 7th, the government announced the human damage of the earthquake in Hokkaido as "dead 16 people", in fact it is "9 people dead, 7 people stopped cardiovascular" I corrected it. He explained that the number of people who combined death and cardiopulmonary arrest was regarded as the number of dead, and apologized as "I am sorry".
Mr. Kan said that the deceased was 16 people, "The government has divided the dead and cardiopulmonary suspensions so far, but in the aggregation stage they have counted both as death toll," he said. On the morning of the same day, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Minister Kan announced "Deceased 16 people" respectively at the relevant ministerial meeting and the interview.
According to the Cabinet Secretariat, the number of deaths announced on the 6th by the government also included the number of cardiopulmonary suspensions.