Scenes of Loss Play Out Across Japan’s Western Coastline After Quake Kills 84

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. This scene in the city of Suzu was tragically repeated across Ishikawa Prefecture and nearby regions on the western coastline of Japan after Monday’s 7.6 magnitude temblor that decimated houses, twisted, and scarred roads, and scattered boats like toys in the waters, and prompted tsunami warnings. The death toll stood at 84 people as of Thursday....