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Landslide kills climber on Mt. Shirouma in Nagano

NAGANO, Japan - A landslide occurred Aug. 11 on Mt. Shirouma in the village of Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, involving at least three people, killing one of them.

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Mountain guide given suspended 3-yr sentence for 4 climbers' deaths

File photo taken in January 2015 shows the 2,932-meter Mt. Shirouma straddling the border between Toyama and Nagano prefectures in Japan. The Nagano District Court on April 20, 2015 found a mountain guide, Kazuhiro Tagami, guilty of professional negligence resulting in death and sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, after four mountaineers in his care died on the mountain in Japan's Northern Alps in October 2006. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Landslide kills climber on Mt. Shirouma in Nagano

NAGANO, Japan - A landslide occurred Aug. 11 on Mt. Shirouma in the village of Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, involving at least three people, killing one of them. (Kyodo)