Thanks to decades-old smart architecture, one small fishing village stood firm as earthquake demolished structures
Wooden buildings across Japan's Noto Peninsula were demolished by a massive earthquake on New Year's Day, but thanks to a quirk of architecture, one small fishing village stood strong. Image: Philip Fong / AFP" title="Still standing: Unique houses survive quake in Japan village"src="https://images.forbesindia.com/media/images/2024/Jan/img_226441_akasaki_village_ishikawa.jpg" style="width: 100%;">
The New Year's Day earthquake demolished wooden buildings all across Japan's Noto Peninsula but thanks to decades-old smart architecture, one small fishing village stood strong.
A few roof tiles came loose but not one of around 100 structures in windswept Akasaki, on the stick of land's western coast, collapsed in the magnitude 7.5 quake whose epicentre was just a few kilometres (miles) away.