A screen grab image of the accident site (source: X) Tokyo, April 24: A wildfire in the Iwate Prefecture of northeastern Japan is currently not under control, with the affected area growing to nearly ...

OTSUCHI, Japan, April 27 (Reuters) - Ryota Haga was in high school when the biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered a deadly tsunami and swept ‌away his family home in the quiet ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A forest fire in a sparsely populated area 75 kilometres north of Tokyo continued to rage for a fifth day on Friday, as local officials were set to ask dozens more households to ...

Wildfires battered Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan for 11 days, starting on April 22. The fires burned about 1,600 hectares and forced 3,200 residents to evacuate. With warmer climates, ...

Over 1,400 firefighters deployed, blaze remains uncontrolled despite rain forecast Haga worries about shortage of firefighters as wildfires increase and population declines A tenth of Otsuchi's ...