Chapter 1. Editorial of the new open access book series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” (Kyoji Sassa).- Part I. Original Articles.- Chapter 2. Key Techniques of Prevention and Control for Reservoir Landslide Based on Evolutionary Process (Huiming Tang).- Chapter 3. Landslide research and technology in patent documents (Matjaž Mikoš).- Chapter 4. Scalable Platform for UAV Flight Operations, Data Capture, Cloud Processing and Image Rendering of Landslide Hazards and Surface Change Detection for Disaster-Risk Reduction (David Huntley).- Chapter 5. Ongoing persistent slope failures at the toe of a giant submarine slide in the Ryukyu Trench that generated the AD 1771 Meiwa tsunami (Kiichiro Kawamura).- Chapter 6. Experimental simulation of landslide creep in ring shear machine (Netra Prakash Bhandary).- Chapter 7. Assessment of the effects of rainfall frequency on landslide susceptibility mapping using AHP method: a case study fora mountainous region in central Vietnam (Chi Cong Nguyen).- Chapter 8. Suffosion landslides as a specific type of slope deformations in the European part of Russia (Oleg V. Zerkal).- Chapter 9. In situ triaxial creep test on gravelly slip zone soil of a giant landslide: innovative attempts and findings (Qinwen Tan).- Chapter 10. Challenges and lessons learned from  heavy rainfall induced geo-disasters over the last decade in Kyushu Island, Japan (Noriyuki Yasufuku).