70% of shops hit by massive Noto quake see no prospects of rebuilding

Seventy percent of shops and restaurants currently operating from temporary facilities in the earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula in central Japan have no prospects of returning to their original locations, a Kyodo News survey showed.Nearly half of the 46 businesses facing difficulties cited a lack of funding as the main obstacle, amid falling customer numbers and sales following the magnitude-7.6 quake that struck Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year's Day last year.The survey was based on interviews conducted in early June with 64 of some 70 businesses operating in 15 makeshift spaces or buildings o…READ FULL ARTICLE