Atami marks 6 months since mudslide disaster

Survivors and people who lost loved ones in last year's mudslide pray at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

ATAMI, Shizuoka -- Memorials were held Monday for the 26 people who died in last year's mudslide in Atami, a hot spring resort in Shizuoka Prefecture, six months after the disaster occurred.

Families who lost loved ones, together with survivors, offered prayers in Atami's Izusan district at 10:30 a.m., the time the disaster struck.