Firefighters struggled to bring a wildfire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, under control on Friday as it continued to rage through the area, burning 1,200 hectares of land, with no prospect of the ...

Hundreds of residents in two cities in Iwate Prefecture were ordered to evacuate on Feb. 25 after a mountain fire broke out and continued overnight. As of 5 p.m. on Feb. 25, a total of about 8 ...

The wildfire in Iwate Prefecture is quickly becoming one of the largest in decades, destroying 2,100 hectares of land, so far, in the past five days — or three times the yearly average of around ...

Just hours after firefighters extinguished a fire that had led to evacuation orders in two Iwate Prefecture cities, another blaze broke out in one of the municipalities. The second forest fire ...