TOKYO - Up to 298,000 people in Japan could die in a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough, a revised estimate by the government's earthquake task force showed Monday, with efforts to mitigate damage reducing the number by around 10 percent from the previous estimate in 2012.
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