The Daily Mail reports that 2,000 bodies have so far washed ashore in northeast Japan:

Two thousand bodies were washed up on the shores of north-east Japan yesterday.
The horrifying tide of death in Miyagi province raised fears that the official expected toll of 10,000 could be a huge under-estimate.
Bodies wrapped in blue tarpaulins were laid on military stretchers and lined up for collection.
Men, women and children were picked from the rubble by rescue workers, their task made that much harder by the constant aftershocks threatening more death and destruction.
Miyagi’s police chief, Naoto Takeuchi, warned: ‘I think the number of deaths here will undoubtedly be in the tens of thousands.’

If the news weren’t bad enough, scientists are predicting a large aftershock that could measure nearly as high as the first:

The director of the Australian Seismological Centre, Dr Kevin McCue, told the Sydney Morning Herald that there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, and a larger aftershock was likely.
’Normally they happen within days.
’The rule of thumb is that you would expect the main aftershock to be one magnitude smaller than the main shock, so you would be expecting a 7.9.