Weather officials in Japan forecast it will rain in the wildfire-hit city of Ofunato from Wednesday through Thursday.

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Thousands of residents in Japan were evacuated on Monday (March 3), after a wildfire spread to become the biggest fire in decades in the country, according to a local media report. Aerial footage ...

Yokohama City firefighters deploy to Japan's northeastern region to reinforce against raging fires in Ofunato. Video credit: ...

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) of ...

Firefighters are battling a blaze in northeastern Japan that has damaged dozens of homes, burned thousands of acres and ...

Firefighters were battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of ...

A massive forest fire in Ofunato, Japan, has damaged over 84 homes and forced 1,200 residents to evacuate. The fire covers ...

A total of 4,596 people from 1,896 households in the city were instructed to evacuate, and 3,661 of them — around 11% of the city’s population — did so.

The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres) of forest in Ofunato since it started on Wednesday, authorities said.

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