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Airline resumes flights to quake-hit airport in central Japan

quake-hit airport

All Nippon Airways resumed its flights to and from an airport in central Japan on Saturday, almost a month after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake hit the region on New Year’s Day and left its runway damaged.

Quake death toll in central Japan tops 80, with 72-hr window closing

Quake death toll

Search and rescue operations continued in central Japan after it was struck by a powerful earthquake on New Year’s Day, with the death toll rising above 80 and some 180 unaccounted for in Ishikawa Prefecture as of Thursday.