A ceremony to mourn the 28 people killed in a landslide was held in the seaside resort city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture ... earthquake of a lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale ...

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.

SHIZUOKA--Shizuoka Vice Governor Takashi Namba said construction work carried out in depositing a dangerous mass of fill dirt high up an Atami mountain was “illegal” and questioned why ...

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 ...

Japan's northern island of Hokkaido has been hit by a powerful earthquake, triggering landslides that engulfed houses. At least nine people have been killed and about 40 are missing, say local ...