FUDAI, JAPAN — In the rubble of Japan’s northeast coast, one small village stands as tall as ever after the tsunami. No homes were swept away. In fact, they barely got wet. Fudai is the ...

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Elsewhere in the village, one of several that dot the small coves of the Noto peninsula hit by the 7.5-magnitude quake, a tangled mass of wooden, metal and plastic debris litters the streets.

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The festival had grown into a major event in the village by 2019 before the pandemic, when some 4,000 people -- far more than the village's population of approximately 2,240 at the time -- attended.