Apr 3, 2022
‘Noto is kind, right down to its soil’: A community’s long road to recovery
Wajima, Ishikawa Pref. – Pressing his gloved hands together and bowing his head, Seiji Yoshimura, helmeted and sporting a bright orange jacket over his jumpsuit, offers a silent prayer toward a crushed home from which he helped recover the body of an elderly woman. She was among the now 215 casualties of the giant earthquake