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Firefighters look at the rubble and wreckage of a burned-out marketplace after a large fire caused by earthquakes in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 3, 2024. Kyodo News via AP
SUZU, Japan—His face hidden under a humble straw hat, the man stood silent, watching several helmeted rescue workers carefully lift his wife’s body from the rubble, wrapped in blue plastic on a stretcher.
He wiped his weary face with a rag. His eyes were red.
