Residents of the Noto Peninsula in central Japan, which was hit both by a massive earthquake and a heavy rain disaster earlier this year, have mixed feelings of hope and resignation over politics ...

WAJIMA, Ishikawa -- A resident here recorded a video of a flooded river just before houses and a car were swept away as torrential rain hit the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, along the Sea ...

Strong temblors, but none nearly as high as the one on Jan. 1, have occasionally hit the Noto Peninsula over the ... Hanshin Earthquake that claimed around 6,400 lives. “I cannot make a ...

The government is estimating that the Noto Peninsula earthquake caused damage ... In the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the estimated damage to fixed assets totaled 16.9 trillion yen.

TOKYO -- The probability of a magnitude 7-plus earthquake striking the Noto Peninsula had jumped to ... surged from the usual 20 times per year to around 8,000 per year in the last three years.

Tokyo, Oct. 25 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government Friday decided to designate the damage from torrential rain that struck the Noto Peninsula in central Japan in September as a disaster of ...

Located on the Sea of Japan, Ishikawa Prefecture once held a powerful place in feudal Japan. We can see this legacy today at ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

Despite desperate rescue efforts, as of 2 p.m. Friday, 12 days after a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula ... are many elderly people who are around 90 at the community hall.

Thousands of families lost their homes when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day ... Children's Emergency Fund enables us to respond to crises around the ...

The government of Ishikawa Prefecture has built an accommodation hub at Noto ... Japan. The container-style facility will house people arriving to help after the Noto Peninsula earthquake. Around ...

The 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Japan Sea coast on Monday, flattening towns on the remote Noto peninsula ... As of Saturday, around 23,200 households were without electricity in Ishikawa ...