This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics. The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more. Caveats: Events like Hōei_eruption do not have proper death tolls, nobody counted beyond who died from immediate lava flows, the starvation deaths nor those from direct ashfall.