Search and rescue workers continue to find the bodies of victims following the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s history last Friday.

Some 100-thousand relief workers, which is a number equivalent to half of all Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, are taking part in search and rescue operations in the northeastern parts of Japan, which were hit the hardest by the quake.

Relief workers found some one-thousand bodies along the coasts of the Oshika Peninsula, which was rocked by last Friday’s quake and ensuing tsunami whose waves measured more than ten meters high. Some one-thousand more bodies were also found in the nearby town of Minami Sanriku Cho.

Police have estimated the death toll to stand at around one-thousand-800, but with the new body counts, that figure is expected to exceed four-thousand.

Tens of thousands of people are missing, and the number of foreigners among those missing is surging. So far, some 300 Indonesians and around 100 Chinese remain unaccounted for.

It was noted, however, that more than ten-thousand people had been rescued as of Monday.