FOCUS: Quake-hit Noto businesses at risk of losing many foreign interns

The Noto Peninsula, battered by a strong earthquake on New Year's Day, is bracing for another blow as many of the foreign technical interns that it has relied on to support its industries contemplate leaving due to a lack of support.With reconstruction efforts proceeding slowly and water supply still disrupted in some areas four months after the magnitude-7.6 quake struck, a steady trickle of interns, most of whom come from Vietnam and Indonesia, have returned home.A fisheries cooperative in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas in the disaster, said three of its some 20 I…READ FULL ARTICLE