Some inns and hotels in Ishikawa prefecture must turn foreign visitors away, even rooms are available, because they don't ...

More than 13,000 people displaced by a powerful earthquake that hit Ishikawa Prefecture 15 months ago are still living in temporary housing. The quake that struck the Noto Peninsula on New Year's ...

Ishikawa Governor Hiroshi Hase abruptly changed his tune and is now pleading for volunteers to come to the prefecture facing the Sea of Japan to help with rebuilding efforts following the Jan. 1 ...