Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes as firefighters worked to contain Japan's largest wildfire in 50 years. ...

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About 4,600 residents remain under evacuation advisories as the fire rages in the northern Iwate region, killing one.

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 ...

28 (UPI) --Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the ... the 2,545 acres burned in Kushiro, Hokkaido in 1992, making it the largest forest fire in the Heisei area.

The last forest fire of this scale in Japan burned more than 1,000 hectares on the northern island of Hokkaido in 1992, a fire agency spokesman said on Sunday, The Japan Times reported.

A massive wildfire erupted near Ofunato, Japan, consuming thousands of hectares of forest in what has become the country’s largest blaze in over 30 years. Dry conditions, record-low February rainfall, ...

TOKYO: Japan's worst wildfire in more than half a century, which killed at least one person, has been brought under control, ...

The rapid spread of the wildfire in Ofunato was caused by both government neglect and the worsening of climate change around ...

Hokkaido is famous for its pristine wilderness and provides some of the most amazing mountain biking experiences in Japan.

More than 2,000 firefighters, backed by military helicopters, are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire in three ... FDMA spokesman Hokkaido told the AFP news agency on Saturday.