SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's Okunoto area for some 1,300 years, resumed in this central Japan city April ...

“This is like building skyscrapers in the middle of Central Park in New York,” Professor Mikiko Ishikawa told the Associated ... one of the poorest EIAs in Japan,” he said.

At noon on Jan. 1, four hours before the magnitude-7.6 quake hit the region, there were a total of 66,000 people in the three municipalities of Noto, Suzu and Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture ...