<span style="color: #222222;">Two bodies were found after a huge landslide at a resort town in central Japan swept away homes following days of heavy rain, with around 20 people still missing, officials said.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Television footage showed a torrent of mud obliterating buildings as it crashed down a hillside in Atami, southwest of Tokyo, sending people fleeing as it buried part of a road.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said, emergency services and the military had launched rescue and evacuation missions, warning that more downpours were forecast.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">There is a possibility of heavy rain due to the rain front, so still need to be at the maximum level, he said at an emergency disaster meeting.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Atami saw rainfall of 313 millimetres in just 48 hours to Saturday, higher than the average monthly total for July of 242.5 millimetres.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">More than 200 people died as devastating floods inundated western Japan in 2018. Around 2,800 homes in Atami have been left without power, according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka were temporarily stopped due to the heavy rain, while other local trains in rain-affected areas were also halted, rail company websites said.</span><br />''  <br />