THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 8, 2021 at 16:47 JST
The site of a massive landslide in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 7 (Wataru Sekita)
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 authorities failed to enforce the rules. [Read More]
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