TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

One dead and thousands evacuated as country battles largest fire in decades - Over 3,500 residents from over 1,300 households have been evacuated ...

Fire departments will conduct emergency fire-safety inspections at about 30,000 multitenant buildings around Japan, Yasushi Kaneko, the internal affairs minister, said on Dec. 19. Kaneko’s ...

And 2024 was Japan’s hottest since records began, mirroring other nations as ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions fuel climate change. In the case of the latest Iwate fire, “strong wind ...

As of Thursday morning, city officials estimated that at least 84 buildings had been damaged by the fire, which the Self-Defence Forces were trying to extinguish from the sky. Picture: The Japan ...

There were about 1,300 wildfires across Japan in 2023, concentrated in the February to April period when the air dries out and winds pick up. In the case of the latest Iwate fire, “strong wind ...