About 33 people were missing and 300 were injured, public broadcaster NHK said. Aerial footage showed dozens of landslides exposing barren hillsides near the town of Atsuma in southern Hokkaido, with mounds of red earth and toppled trees piled at the edge of green fields. "It came in four big jerks - boom! boom! boom! boom!" one unidentified woman told NHK.



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