The weather agency warned of major traffic disruptions in flat areas in the northern part of the Noto region in Ishikawa.

At least 48 people were killed in Ishikawa Prefecture following the powerful earthquake that rattled the Noto region on New Year’s Day, the prefectural government said Jan. 2. As of 3:30 p.m ...

Food distribution is underway at a community center in a temporary housing area in the Misaki-machi district of Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, which was devastated by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake of ...

A three-day evacuation exercise involving nearly 5,000 residents began on Feb. 14 close to a nuclear power plant here.

When the Noto Peninsula earthquake struck on New Year’s Day, 2024, we saw evacuees taking shelter in school gymnasiums and community centers, lying on cold, hard floors. There were no partitions ...

The major earthquake that jolted Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, drew attention to the area’s severe issue of an aging and shrinking population, but efforts to revive the Anamizu ...

A Kyodo News survey showed Sunday that 50.1 percent of respondents gave high marks to the first in-person summit between ...

Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to ...

Several emergency temporary housing structures have now been completed on the playground of the municipal Monzen Higashi ...

The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises in the quake-hit Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture around early ...