SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in ...

An annual spring festival featuring large floats has been held in a Japanese town that was devastated by the 2024 Noto ...

Princess Aiko will visit the city of Nanao and the town of Shika in Ishikawa Prefecture in mid-May to see how efforts to ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Crocidolite, a highly carcinogenic type of asbestos, has been found exposed at a hotel damaged by the ...

On New Year's Day in 2024, a devastating earthquake in the Noto Peninsula upended the region. A group of researchers sought to examine how this earthquake—and possibly others like it in the past ...

The areas of warmer colors experienced larger ground uplift during the earthquake. Traces of seafloor active faults (the cyan ...

Fears are rising that a growing nursing shortage could lead to the collapse of medical care in the quake-shattered northern part of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. More than 60 ...

25, raising the death toll to nine from destruction caused by record torrential rain over the weekend on the Noto Peninsula. The body was discovered under mud and debris after excavators dug about ...

The Noto Peninsula earthquake damaged more than just buildings in neighboring Toyama Prefecture. It has rattled two mainstays of its economy: fishing and tourism. This year's catch of snow crabs ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates.