Hundreds of residents in two cities in Iwate Prefecture were ordered to evacuate on Feb. 25 after a mountain fire broke out ...

Firefighters on the morning of Feb. 27 continued battling the latest forest fire here that has spread to several locations ...

Steady rainfall on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate ...

Firefighting efforts continued in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, as the forest fire spread on Friday (Feb 28), and the number of ...

The unusually dry weather, strong winds, the prefecture's mountainous terrain — as well as what's known as a fire cycle — ...

Japan's worst wildfire in more than half a century, which killed at least one person, has been brought under control, the ...

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

As of Wednesday morning, 4,111 people had been evacuated from Ofunato, or about 13% of the city’s entire population.

The rapid spread of the wildfire in Ofunato was caused by both government neglect and the worsening of climate change around ...

A massive wildfire in northeastern Japan expanded Monday with over 2,100 hectares burned since last week, putting more homes ...

TOKYO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- A massive wildfire in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Iwate was declared contained on Sunday after damaging at least 210 buildings, according to the local government ...

Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in 30 years after ...