Residents in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, recounted this week a landslide and unsuccessful rescue effort to save a member of their community in the wake of downpours and flooding that left about 200 dead in western Japan.On Saturday morning, a woman in her 60s heard what sounded like an explosion. She then saw the residential area being swept by mud and some houses pushed into the sea."I could not believe it," she said with her voice trembling, adding that she heard her neighbor's daughter frantically calling the name of her father.Her neighbor, Hidefumi Izumi, 64, was engulfed by a mudslide …READ FULL ARTICLE
