Victims of Mt. Ontake Eruption Remembered 11 Years On

Victims of Mt. Ontake Eruption Remembered 11 Years On
Otaki, Nagano Pref., Sept. 27 (Jiji Press)--About 60 people mourned the victims of the eruption of Mount Ontake in central Japan 11 years ago in a memorial ceremony on Saturday. A moment of silence was observed at the ceremony in the village of Otaki in Nagano Prefecture at the foot of the 3,067-meter mountain at 11:52 a.m., the exact time when the country's worst volcanic disaster in the p...