Search and rescue efforts continue in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture ... been used to fill a valley in roughly the area where the mudslide began. That accounts for about half the amount of ...

A business operator had obtained the land in September 2006 and then filed a report in March 2007 to the city of Atami detailing a plan to fill in the land according to the rules laid out in a ...

“The primary factor (behind the disaster) was the insufficient assessment and guidance on the part of the Atami city government,” the body said May 13 in its final report. The Shizuoka ...

In July 2021, a sudden landslide struck Atami city in Shizuoka prefecture, killing 27 people. Landslides are a perennial risk in Japan, because it is subject to high annual rainfalls, and ...

Seventeen people are still unaccounted for more than a week since massive mudslides devastated Atami city in Shizuoka Prefecture. The search for survivors has been seriously affected by poor ...