Japan’s three-headed earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster has taken a terrible toll in human lives, injuries, and the general well-being of the Japanese people. It will, of course, carry a financial cost, too. And now, the first financial estimates of the damage are rolling in. “If ever there was a comeback-kid sort of country, this is surely it,” says E.J. Dionne in The Washington Post.

• $247 billion
  Japanese Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano’s estimate of what it will cost to rebuild Japan
• $235 billion
  World Bank estimate of what it will cost to rebuild Japan
• 390,000 
  Number of Japanese who remain homeless
• 9,080
  Official death toll from the disasters
• 13,561
  Number of Japanese still reported missing

More numbers here…