A huge rescue operation is under way in central Japan after a landslide ... Several houses were swept away by the mudslide, which followed heavy rain. Atami has had more rainfall in the first ...

Rescue teams battling heavy rain pulled survivors from their ruined homes on Sunday after a landslide struck the Japanese coastal city of Atami ... Residents said the mudslide struck at about ...

But at the site of a lethal landslide that occurred on July 3 in Atami ... A mudslide is also called "yama-tsunami" (mountain tsunami) and "deiryu" (mud flow) in Japanese. "Muddy water surged ...

“Azuma Kagami” (literally, “Mirror of the East”), a medieval Japanese text that chronicles ... up their trysts in the present-day city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture at Izusan shrine ...

In Oita's Beppu City, a popular tourist destination, mudslides have closed the local ropeway. In central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, more than 10 slides were reported in Atami City. Mud poured ...