The 63,000 affected homes account for 60 percent of all the households in Shimizu Ward. “We hope to restore the water supply within a week at most,” Shizuoka Mayor Nobuhiro Tanabe told ...
MAKINOHARA, Shizuoka Prefecture--A tornado slammed into Shizuoka Prefecture on the night of May 1 stripping homes of roof tiles, knocking down utility poles and leaving three people injured ...