Rescue workers and self-defense force personnel have been searching for missing climbers and survivors among ash-covered mountain cottages on the top of Mount Ontake in Nagano prefecture, one day after the volcano erupted in central Japan.

Rescue workers and self-defense force personnel have been searching for missing climbers and survivors among ash-covered mountain cottages on the top of Mount Ontake in Nagano prefecture, one day after the volcano erupted in central Japan.