1, 2024, drew attention to the area’s severe issue of an aging and shrinking population, but efforts to revive the Anamizu Town, which is in the center of the Noto Peninsula, will aid the ...

That was the case until this month, when officials opened a call center in quake-hit Noto Town, Ishikawa Prefecture. The center opened at the town office on March 1. Three people are on staff to ...

A 22-year-old Indonesian intern who returned from an evacuation center to a company dormitory near Ogi Port in Noto town explained what he went through. He said he was playing a video game with ...

Another went missing in the nearby town of Noto, according to the prefecture. In Wajima, rescue workers were searching for ...

In Ishikawa Prefecture, near the epicenter, the quake took 101 lives in Wajima City; 101 lives in Suzu City; 20 lives in Anamizu Town; eight lives in Noto Town; five lives in Nanao City ...

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Another went missing in the nearby town of Noto, according to the prefecture. In Wajima, four people were missing following a landslide at a construction site. They were among 60 construction ...