At a news conference held on Oct. 18 this year, prefectural and city officials said that they only learned of the risk it could cause damage to residents in October 2010.

“They showed a landfill inappropriately constructed, different from a report submitted to Atami city authorities,” Shizuoka Vice Governor Takashi Namba said of the photos. The mudslide that ...

Search and rescue efforts continue in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where deadly mudslides on July 3 have left at least 9 people dead and damaged about 130 buildings. Experts are now examining ...

Then the property in Atami, about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo, came on the market. At first, their client was reluctant: The house, which was built in 1977, was smaller than he wanted. But Kotaka ...

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 ...

The town of Atami isn’t at the top of every tourist ... the kind of sunny coastal highway that’s redolent of City Pop album artwork. In fact the whole area feels like a blissed-out flashback ...