Japan ‘needs to learn lessons’ from slow quake response after 30 victims die in cold while trapped, waiting for rescue
Japanese police on Thursday raised the death toll of the magnitude-7.6 quake that struck the Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day to 238, with 19 people still listed as missing. Of the 238, at least 32 died from extreme cold waiting for rescue teams, police said. Most were in the coastal towns of Wajima and Suzu, on the northern coast of the prefecture, which bore the brunt of the quake and subsequent tsunami.