Overview

• Five more residents returned on August 2, leaving only one evacuee from Akusekijima after mass departures following the July 3 magnitude-6 lower quake.
• The Japan Meteorological Agency logged 2,241 quakes of intensity 1 or higher since June 21, with no intensity-4 shocks observed since July 17.
• Seismographs detected nearly 10,000 tremors—including many too faint to feel—over the first month, underscoring vigorous crustal fracturing beneath the islands.
• Guesthouses reported a 90% plunge in July income compared with last year, and livestock farmers say transporting cattle poses its own risks and stress.
• Toshima Village has approved ¥50,000 payments to each of 79 households on Akusekijima and Kotakarajima to help offset economic losses and aid repatriation.