The Age wrote:
Rescue workers have found the bodies of three men who had been missing since Sunday's avalanche on Mt Shakotan in Hokkaido - bringing the death toll to four.
The four victims were all from Hokkaido - Masahiro Watanabe, 44, Hiroshi Oyane, 59, Osamu Uchida, 34, and Yukiya Yamagiwa, 20.
They were among 22 male snowmobilers who drove up the mountain on 17 snowmobiles to record their trip with camcorders, according to the police.
The rescue workers had resumed the search for the missing three near the top of the mountain on Monday morning, with help from about 50 members of the Ground Self-Defence Force.
The rescue team also found about five snowmobiles in the area of the avalanche, the police said.
The avalanche occurred on Sunday afternoon at about 1,000 metres above sea level on the 1,255-metre mountain on the Shakotan Peninsula in the western part of Hokkaido.
The snowmobilers had broken into two groups, and the avalanche occurred near the upper group, engulfing about 10 snowmobiles and some of those who were in the lower group, the police said . . . more
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