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 ...

An area of at least 2,100 hectares in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, has been destroyed by the blaze. At least one person has ...

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

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

Burned area has expanded to 2,600 hectares due to raging wildfire in Ofunato city of northeastern Iwate prefecture ...

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

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 ...

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.