Soon after a powerful earthquake devastated Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024, councilor Tsuyoshi Yamahana heard about the dire state of public restrooms at a local train station.Yamahana, a member of the Nanao City Council in Ishikawa Prefecture, immediately headed for the station and was met with an overwhelming stench -- the men's, women's and multipurpose toilets were overflowing with human waste, which had even spread outside to the nearby train tracks."My guess is the restrooms weren't working anymore and people couldn't hold it in," Yamahana told Kyodo News in a recent in…READ FULL ARTICLE