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Naoyuki Teramoto spent most of the first week of 2024 standing near a disaster site in Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, clinging to hope as tragic news kept trickling in.
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that flattened parts of central Japan on January 1 passed 200 on Tuesday, with just over 100 people still unaccounted for, authorities said.
The earthquake struck off the Sea of Japan coast, rattling the same part of the country where a huge tremor on New Year s Day and its aftershocks caused widespread destruction, killing more than 200