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 ...

Shizuoka Vice Governor Takashi Namba on July 7 called the construction methods used for a landfill that collapsed high up in a mountain in Atami "inappropriate." The landfill gave way in a deadly ...

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.