Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around ...

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency says there were 1,299 wildfires nationwide in 2023, and more than half occurred between February and April. It says the pattern is the same every year.

And last year was Japan's hottest since records began, mirroring other nations as ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions fuel ...

A forest fire, which started last Wednesday, continues to spread behind houses in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 3, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) 32,951 people played the ...

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has destroyed or damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares ...