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

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba was considering declaring the country’s biggest wildfire in decades a “severe disaster” as the blaze continued to rage for the eighth day, reducing nearly 3,000 ...

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

More than 2,000 firefighters have been deployed to combat Japan’s largest forest fire in 30 years ... the region recorded just 2.5 millimeters of rain — significantly below the average ...

The Borough of Trees is getting a first-of-its-kind Japanese mini-forest this spring – which is slated to improve air quality ...

Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale not seen for over 30 years. The city of Ofunato, already devastated by the ...

while a man said he was "very happy that we had rain yesterday". The wildfire burnt about 2,900 hectares (7,170 acres) -- around half the size of Manhattan -- making it Japan's largest in more ...

TOKYO — A wildfire in northern Japan has damaged over 80 buildings and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents, with military helicopters mobilized to help put it out, authorities said ...

Thousands of panicked residents were forced to evacuate after a wildfire in northeastern Japan damaged buildings and prompted the mobilization of military helicopters to douse the raging blaze ...

TOKYO — 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 ...