A landslide struck one of the main starting points for climbers on Mount Fuji on Wednesday, broadcaster TBS reported, after heavy rain inundated large parts of Japan\u2019s center.<\/p>\n
Three vehicles were covered by the debris but no injuries or casualties have been reported, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n
The incident followed heavy rain in the mountainous areas of Shizuoka Prefecture overnight and into Wednesday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.<\/p>\n
The Fuji Subaru Line, one of the main access roads to Mount Fuji, was closed due to heavy rain, according to its website.<\/p>\n
Separately, two climbers were found unconscious on trails on Mount Fuji early Wednesday, Kyodo News reported, citing Shizuoka Prefectural Police, who have not connected the incident to the landslide. A police mountain rescue team has been dispatched to the scene, Kyodo added.<\/p>\n
Another landslide struck the town of Kawanehon in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday night, and a worker who had been left unconscious was later confirmed dead, local authorities said.<\/p>\n
Torrential rain also battered the nearby prefectures of Aichi and Gifu on Tuesday evening, causing flooding in some areas and injuring 41 people, Kyodo reported.<\/p>\n
Nagoya recorded a record 104.5 mm of rainfall in a single hour on Tuesday evening, according to public broadcaster NHK. Long queues of stranded commuters formed at stations in central Nagoya after heavy rain disrupted transportation services, NHK reported.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain is expected to continue through Wednesday afternoon from northeastern to western Japan, according to the meteorological agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landslide struck one of the main starting points for climbers on Mount Fuji on Wednesday, broadcaster TBS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,1990,1028],"class_list":["post-88955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-landslides","tag-mount-fuji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}