Nearly 70 percent of the 63 municipal governments in Nara and Wakayama prefectures hit by typhoon-induced mudslides did not have hazard maps prepared for such disasters, reports the Japan Times. It highlights the lack of public awareness of mudslides versus earthquakes and tsunami, although landslides have become the more likely threat in recent years because forests are in decline.
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