On the one hand, Kasahara asserts that the survey substantially underestimated the death toll, partly because Smythe only surveyed inhabited homes and thus skipped over the homes of families who had been entirely destroyed or been unable to return.
笠原断言调查大大低估了死亡人数，部分原因是史迈斯只调查了有人住的房屋，因此跳过了那些房屋完全破坏或无法返回的家庭的住房。