Volunteer firefighters are suspending their search for three people, including a Vietnamese trainee, who have been missing since a mudslide in southwestern Japan nearly three weeks ago.
The mudslide in Shiiba Village, Miyazaki Prefecture, likely occurred on the night of September 6, when Typhoon Haishen was approaching Japan. The disaster swept away a construction firm office and the home of the company's owner.
The search continues for one Vietnamese and two Japanese who have been missing since a mudslide hit Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan, two weeks ago.
The mudslide, which likely occurred on the night of September 6, swept away the office of a construction firm in Shiiba Village and the home of the firm's owner.
Rescue workers continue to search for missing people in southwestern Japan, after record rainfall triggered floods and landslides over the weekend.
Officials say in Kumamoto Prefecture, 24 people have been confirmed dead, 16 are without vital signs, and 12 others are missing.
Authorities in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, say they have lost contact with three firefighters and a police officer who were dispatched to the site of a fire.
Police and firefighting authorities say they received a report from a security firm that a factory warehouse was on fire in the town of Yoshida early Sunday morning.
Officials of Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, say around 13 people have been reported missing in the prefecture as of 10 a.m. Saturday.
The officials say landslides swept away several houses in Tagawa district in Ashikita Town, leaving about 10 people unaccounted for.
More than 17,400 people with dementia were reported missing in Japan last year.
The National Police Agency says 17,479 people diagnosed with or suspected of having dementia went missing in 2019. The figure increased from the previous year by 552, and has been rising since 2012.
Tokyo's local governments near the US Yokota Air Base are requesting that the US military's Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft be grounded until safety measures are taken.
Japan's Defense Ministry officials on Wednesday informed the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and local municipalities near the US base that part of an Osprey went missing after a flight on Tuesday.
Thirteen crew members of a freighter are missing after the vessel collided with a fishing boat and sank off the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori on Saturday.
Coast Guard officials say the 1,989-ton cargo vessel, "Guoxing-1 ," notified them that the ship was taking on water after a collision with a fishing boat.
The Japanese government has decided it will not to give subsidies this fiscal year ending March to a university where a large number of foreign students have gone missing.
Tokyo University and Graduate School of Social Welfare has lost contact with more than 1,600 foreign students, including enrollees from Vietnam and Nepal, over the past three years.