TOKYO—The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido doubled to at least 16, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, Sept. 7, with more than half the island’s 5.3 million residents still without power.
The 6.7-magnitude quake, which hit before dawn on Sept. 6, triggered landslides that buried houses and paralyzed Hokkaido with widespread power and transport cuts.
