Two people have died and at least 20 people have been reported missing after a mudslide in Japan’s coastal town of Atami, southwest of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has called an emergency cabinet meeting.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Chappelle has the latest.
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Landslides are preventable. Stop building on land prone to landslides. It’s easy.
@SANDY BROCKMEYER If you know anything about Japan, then you’ll know that it has a large mountainous areas which bisect Honshu, the main island where this happened, condensing the population into the lower regions of the country, meaning that these regions are often densely populated. You will also know that Japan as a country sits on the Pacific Ring, which is a known fault line around the Pacific meaning that tectonic activity is a very regular occurrence – almost daily in fact. You will also know that Japan is acutely aware of these problems it faces and seeing as moving the entire country to another part of the globe is not possible, measures are put in place to minimize risk of landslides, such as reinforced concrete beams being laid on vulnerable hillsides, covered over with steel mesh to limit any movement or fall of debris. Obviously you know all this and have clearly thought out your comment before running your yap.
@Michael Summerell thank you 👏
Then floating houses are the solution!
It’s Japan not Australia, they have double the population compare to UK live in this tiny island.
@Michael Summerell Thanks for being so kind to educate me. God Bless You!
My God! Help?
@Sqeptik Me too. The crazies and religious nuts come out in droves on disaster clips. Sad old lot
@Caring Sharing wtf are you smoking you nut
According to the Global Detention Project, Japan received 15,505 refugee or asylum applications in 2019 and had more than 22,000 detainees in its three main detention facilities in Osaka, Nagasaki and Ibaraki, as well as at 16 smaller units around the country.
RIP disaster victims! But could also be Karma??? This is according to their own Buddhist teachings. So quit blaming me!😛
Same as your💩😇
Aussie,
Karma or law of attraction at play. Research it mate!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I love Japan and its people. They are polite and friendly. But behind all those smiles and technological glitter, something sinister is going on. Could this be KARMA for discriminating against foreigners and misguided beliefs like ancestral worship/Shinto??
Many innocent people languishing in detention for trying to seek asylum. Foreigners hardly get citizenship. The country is singular, boring and depressing. It’s an expensive, materialistic and cold society. Both the youth and elderly die miserably and often alone or by suicide. No Japanese want to marry because they feel unattracted to one another. Furthermore, Inadequate amounts of money is hampering marriage, the ability to raise a family or have kids. Something is wrong with the Japanese ideology of Shinto. Its insular culture and beliefs are causing self-destruction. How can you offer food to idols? It’s a total waste! Plus has Shinto practices helped alleviate suffering? No, it’s getting worse and Japan is on the verge of destruction. The solution? Turn to God, the one and only Creator of the universe, in all earnest and you shall certainly succeed.
Also time to bring in decent foreigners along with their exotic vibrant lifestyle and inject some excitement in Japanese lives. Only migrants can save Japan from its dying population. Make Japan great again with diversity.👍🌷🍊🌴🍁💖💪
Desperate comment..
Is that the best you can do? Sorry I can’t help with your poor comprehension. If you are a school boy, ask mummy to explain. If you are an adult, I recommend taking night classes to help with your comprehension skills. Cheers!🤡
LA,
Facts!
No one asking you to come to Japan if you don’t like, more over to stay, so just stay in your
lovely country .
That’s so true, but then the majority of foreigners wouldn’t even want to stay for a long period of time after experiencing Japaneseness first hand.
I ran away after living only one year there although I still had another year in my residence permit, I just couldn’t take it anymore.
I do realize that the majority of Japanese people are but victims of their rigid sociopolitical system, but I guess it’s up to them to stand up for themselves and decide what’s best for them.
Ï LOVE 💕 “JAPAN”
I am very sad for such a situation in Japan.
God help japanens people From pakistan
Well their ancestor Shinto god’s haven’t stepped in to help them😱
It doesn’t matter how much you are advanced in technology , we cannot fight nature …
disgusting comment , imagine telling dead people that we cannot fight nature. Thats your first psychopathic and narcissistic response to a mass casualty event. You are one sick person. Rest in peace to the innocent lives lost.
@Reggie Angus
Honestly, how is that sick? He IS telling the truth of the matter. We cannot fight nature, no matter how hard we try. That is just a fact of life you have to accept.
The fact you are calling him psychopathic and narcissistic only says stuff about who YOU are.
That doesn’t change the fact innocent die, and it’s a terrible thing. He was only telling us the grim truth. Learn what nature can do, and learn what it does for us. Its a double sided beautiful but terrible sword.
Technology is one thing. The other important thing is social/political model that enables the whole country to move as ONE. Except China, I can’t see anything like this elsewhere, especially in democracy where anti-government is very strong. (and they’re actually proud of that!)
@Reggie Angus “imagine telinha dead people?? OMG!
@Reggie Angus
The truth is hard to accept… what do u think people will live forever or without disasters and accidents…?..well that’s not a Disney world, this is the real world and you have to accept its sweet and its sour. The ideal life it’s in heaven and this world is just a test
Olympics must be moved to another country where its safe
no country is always safe
Very handsome Japanese man in the thumbnail ngl
DONT BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE
Please stay safe after the slide and protects all the children into stable places
Karma & Probably Worst will come 4their Evil War Drum Beatings & their Ugly Conspiracy Theories Colluding with the Fkg West against GREAT China LoL…
🤠👹☠️🤡🤡🤡🔫🔫🔫👎👉👌
🕊️✝️ 🤍
In Japan, as in Africa, all power lines are overhead, not buried. Millions of power lines in the air, sputtering and causing short circuits at the slightest mishap. Pathetic. We saw that when 2011 tsunami
😑 hi mr yoshihide suga, if Alloh angry to all humans you all must come back to Alloh .. not the others !
Are u Jewish?
canada australia japan and so on these are puppets of the usa it is like someone cursed them
Reported that ” you got what you deserve because of your religion” as hate speech.
It’s karma🤡
@Caring Sharing well let’s hope your karma gives you what you deserve for being a templar.
*I invite everyone for quran recitation thank you* 💔💔🌷🌹🙏🙏🙏❤❤.’
Insha allah
Shalom caralho
Why?
this was not so much natural disaster as human caused disaster
google map makes us understand there’s mega solar panels enormously disliked by locals on the hillsides right above the landslide spots
it’s ironic that vanity of environmental activists who didn’t pay a homage to nature brought this tragedy
Exactly. Such an ironic tragedy.
true~ the solar panels are there and that could have triggered something unfortunately :/
Spiritual warfare come in many forms!💫
There is no God except Allah most Gracious Most Merciful he is one and only Allah. Repent only from Allah. 🙏🙏🙏
Allah only can save his Creations
He is a creator and sustainer.May Allah save who affected by nature.
Sorry for the loss. We all feel that Japan technology and science is somewhat overrated. They mostly live nowadays with the image of the glory past, when Japan was a super-high-tech. They should have applied sensors, AI, Big Data, Robotics… like China to cope with increasing challenge of natural disasters.
Read Al quran to improve your Religious knowledge. Last testament in this world.
どうした堤下!(゜ロ゜)
Whoever built the red building deserves an award.
the white building to the left took a lot of beating too.
agreed
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They still want to do Doggyo Olympicu with Covid and Natural disasters. God very angry with japan.
Very very true
I have a better theory. It’s nothing to do with god and much more to do with thick wet mud lubricated with huge amounts of rainwater and a constant pull of gravity which causes it to slide.
Europe as well is under water, for Romania is the worst, now Japan … what is going on?
It rains a lot in some places. These events are nothing new.
the earth is sending messages in form of disasters. not a coincidence. something’s up with the earth.
covid-19 olympics
Fukushima radioactive olympics
0:27 the car was just few seconds ahead of the disaster.
They likely saw it coming and floored it.
I don’t think they made it very far. That stuff was fast! I hope they survived.
“no country on earth has as many natural disasters” if this is not a sign from God and that they can’t even recognize it as such, then they’re really doomed!
“And there will be Japanese landslides” *The Bible* probably
The most dangerous is sooner
Mother Nature getting rid of the unnatural in full speed 💪🏽💪🏽
I hope it is getting worse than Fukushima.
That’s an awful thing to say 😱
I told you all …
Weather, hurricanes, mudslides, volcanoes erupting….
And the new hypervariant…..
Many thoughts and prayers for the people in this mudslide and their families. 🙏✝️🙏
A heavily populated hilly area will have been covered in trees in previous times.
Commentator: “There may be no country on earth that has as many natural disasters as Japan does.”
Philippines: “Hold my beer.”
I think Bangladesh, and maybe India, have a lot of natural disasters.
@Stephanie Newbern I think a country is extra prone to disasters if it is near a body of water, such as an ocean, as well as on the tectonic plate borders like those in the pacific rings of fire, which is also pleagued by volcanoes…fun fact: Philippines experiences an expected 20 plus storms/hurricanes/typhoons each year.
@Lumen TVIndia has it’s own tectonic plate !….and also has a huge coastal area !…..!
@देव卐 yes yes that’s what I am saying..countries near those areas are very prone to natural disasters.
As one Japanese, I thank you for condolence about this landslide accident, and thank many foreigners worry victimezed people by this landslide.
We pray for your safety
Stay strong japanese citizens🙏
May I know why there is soo many incidents like tsunami,flood,earthquake in Japan …pls stay safe…
the thing is they aren’t _NATURAL_ disasters anymore when human induced global warming is becoming more of the cause of phenomena like this. even if this particular disaster may not be caused in part by global warming there are instances all over the world these days that speak to that fact.
WOW!
SO BEAUTIFUL 😍💖
JAPAN HAVE TO RETURN BACK OF KOREAN LAND.
God will be keeping punishing Japan.
Hello korean bot.
, hope the victim save.
japan still wants the kurils vladivostok and Sakhalin.
Poor people. However not natural disaster, but criminal activity in homebuild and zoning industry. Of course, it is under strong influence of USA for 70+ years, tons of money in that industry, tons of learned criminal ways to rob the country and people. Same like anywhere else west got their fingers at, look at Ukraine, former Yugoslav republics, etc, etc. OFC they present it as “iron curtain” consequences, but actually it is few decades of criminal capitalism that robbed the people, all those countries were doing fine, now are ruined by capitalistic robbery and bribed sellouts.
Man that is so devastating!
Hopefully they find the missing
Atom reaction is still remains
Original cause of debris of stone and sand flow is Mega solar electric power of Korean company. The Mega solar was built on the mountain. All rain water flowed down on same ground. Rain water made ground slack. Korean electric company is expanding of all local mountain side of Japan as well as Atami.
I googled “mega solar korean electric in japan”. Your comment seems to be correct and I hope there will be some accountability for this because even if it couldn’t have been prevented, the extreme devastation of this mudslide is clearly impacted by the construction of that facility as you mentioned in your comment.
japan is sins country this why
In other footage I saw (weather channel) there was a firefighter trying to outrun this exact same situation. Prayers that he made it to safety. It wasn’t looking good in the footage, but the camera lost sight of him. 🙏
Where’s ninja hatodi ?? What about doremon ?? R all safe??
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted”.
Matt 23 NIV
YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FOR YOURSELF AN IMAGE in the form of anything, in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath, or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents up to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
“If my people who are called by my name, humble themselves and pray, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.”
AND WHEN YOU PRAY, DO NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. BUT WHEN YOU PRAY GO INTO YOUR ROOM, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
This, then, is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
“Matthew 5-7 NIV Bible Gateway”, we can use google search.
These are the teachings,
The Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ our God.
REPENT, and start doing what is right.
If you abide my teachings, you are really my disciples; then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in Truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
GOD IS SPIRIT so his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in Truth.
In the New Heaven and New Earth,
only Righteousness dwells.
May the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ our God be with you all.