Death Toll From Japan Quake Hits 44, Power Supply, Toyota Output Disrupted

Police officers and members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) carry a missing person found from an area damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake in Atsuma town, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 8, 2018. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via Reuters

TOKYO—The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said on Sept. 10, as electricity supply remained short and top automaker Toyota suspended work at most of its assembly plants.

The pre-dawn, 6.7-magnitude quake on Sept. 6, temporarily paralyzed the island of Hokkaido, cutting off access by air and train and knocking out power to an island the size of Austria.