Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...
Firefighting efforts continued in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, as the forest fire spread on Friday (Feb 28), and the number of ...
A massive forest fire in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, has spread to around 1,800 hectares as it enters its fifth day on ...
Firefighters on the morning of Feb. 27 continued battling the latest forest fire here that has spread to several locations ...
TOKYO -- The wildfire in Ofunato city of Japan's Iwate prefecture is continuing to spread, with the burned area expanding to ...
Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in 30 years after ...
More than 2,000 fire-fighters are battling Japan's biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory. One person died last week ...
The unusually dry weather, strong winds, the prefecture's mountainous terrain — as well as what's known as a fire cycle — ...