According to prefectural officials, deaths in three Ishikawa Prefecture municipalities were asked to be confirmed, which they did later that month, bringing the official death toll to 260.

KANAZAWA--The death toll from the New Year’s Day earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture stood at 65 as of 3 p.m. on Jan. 3, prefectural officials said. The magnitude-7.6 earthquake in the Noto ...

Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture, applying another layer ... This year brought death and suffering to the city and its ...