The Yomiuri ShimbunWorkers place bite-size rice crackers in wooden boxes in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture. SHIKA, Ishikawa — The production of colorful bite-size rice crackers is in full swing in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture. Kunio Shirayama, 82, and his wife Fusako, 83, recently placed mochi into wooden boxes arrayed on the floor of their workshop in Shika. Colored red, yellow and green, the mochi was cut to produce rice crackers called Noto Shika Arare. “We thought about stopping production after the Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck two years ago.