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 ...

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

Thousands have evacuated after a wildfire broke out in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture last week. At least one person has died. Snow ...

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

The wildfire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, continued to rage for a seventh day on Tuesday and has now burned about 2,600 ...

As record-breaking snowfall is recorded in Japan's main island of Hokkaido, the country fights its worst wildfire in decades ...

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

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.

A catastrophic forest fire in Ofunato, Japan, has consumed 2,100 hectares of land, destroying at least 84 homes and prompting ...

A massive forest fire in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, has spread to around 1,800 hectares as it enters its fifth day on ...