Japan storm kills nine including mother and three children killed in car buried by snow drifts Body of Mikio Okada found wrapped round his daughter, who survived Heavy snow that fell on the main northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Over the weekend nine people lost their lives to the storm By Jill Reilly and Helen Lawson At the weekend nine people were killed on Hokkaido island due to the poor weather including the family. The body of fisherman Mikio Okada, 53, was found on Sunday with his daughter Natsune, nine, who was crying and suffering from severe frostbite. Mr Okada had wrapped his daughter in his jacket and was holding her in his arms against a warehouse wall. Relatives raised the alarm after the pair failed to return home on Saturday afternoon. Mr Okada had called family members at 4pm to say the pair were going to walk the last kilometre home after his truck got stuck in the snow, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. But they were found only 300 metres away from the truck at 7am the next morning. The newspaper reported that Natsune's mother died two years ago and that Mr Okada would often delay the start of his working day to sit down for breakfast with his daughter. Also over the weekend, a 54-year-old man and a 76-year-old man were found collapsed in the snow in another part of Hokkaido, and both were confirmed dead, Kyodo news service said. The body of Kuniko Jingi, 76, was found lying in the street after she also left her snowed-in vehicle. The storm caused two-metre-high (six-and-a-half-feet) drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon. Deadly: Eight people died in snow-related accidents related to the heavy snow Rescuers: In this aerial image, people remove the snow around cars in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan Passengers walk to buses in the snow in Daisen, Akita Prefecture after waiting for six hours on a stranded bullet train The bullet train's 130 passengers walked away unharmed after the derailment The passenger train was moving slowly at only 12mph because of the heavy snow on the tracks. The train's 130 passengers, travelling in six carriages, walked away unharmed after the driver performed an emergency stop. The front carriage came off the tracks at about 4.05pm. But they had to wait for six hours on the train, which stopped at the city of Daisen, before buses came to rescue them while investigators got to work. Reduced services started again on the line today after the accident. Services on the line resumed today after Saturday afternoon's derailment Japan Railway staff led passengers to replacement buses after they had to wait for six hours on the derailed bullet train A Japan Transport Safety Board inspector examines the area around a wheel of a bullet train in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, the day after it came off the tracks because of heavy snow Staff worked through Sunday to get the line back in service