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

Hundreds of residents in the northern Japanese city of Ofunato have been forced to evacuate their homes as firefighters battle to contain the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. The blaze has burnt about 2,

Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around the northern Japanese city of Ofunato since Thursday,