By MARI YAMAGUCHI and YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press OZU, Japan — The wooden home barely withstood the first earthquake. An even stronger one the next night dealt what might have been the final blow — if not to the house, then to the Tanaka family’s peace of mind. A bridge is cut off by landslides after the earthquake in Minamiaso, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 16, 2016. The village near Mount Aso volcano appears to have been the hardest hit by the second earthquake. Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan. (Kyodo News via AP) The Tanakas joined about 50 other residents of the southern Japanese town of Ozu who were planning to sleep in their cars at a public park Saturday after two nights of increasingly terrifying earthquakes that have killed 41 people, flattened [...]
