ATAMI, Shizuoka Prefecture--The disaster that befell ... professor emeritus of geotechnical engineering at Tokyo Denki University. A hazard map issued by the land ministry shows that Izusan ...

Mudslides stretched about more than 2 km in Atami, Shizuoka Pref. Officials say at least 54,000 cubic meters had been used to fill a valley in roughly the area where the mudslide began.