Nippon Professional Baseball’s Yakult Swallows announce that the organization staff member who played team mascot ... Japanese. Banner photo: Wildfire spreads in the hills of Ōfunato, Iwate ...

The wildfire engulfed about 2,900 hectares — around half the size of Manhattan — making it Japan's largest in more than 50 years. It surpassed the 2,700 hectares consumed by a 1975 fire in ...

Along the coast of Japan’s Iwate prefecture, where a tsunami swept away entire communities on March 11, 2011, a single tree remains as a symbol of endurance. Known as the Miracle Pine ...

The wildfire in Iwate Prefecture is quickly becoming one ... Although forest fires rarely make the front page in Japan, they occur more frequently than people think, with around 1,200 reported ...

Firefighters are struggling to contain a forest fire that continues raging in multiple locations in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Iwate. At least 10 houses have reportedly been damaged.

Emergency crews have been continuously battling a wildfire in Iwate, Japan. The crown fire, which started on February 26, has destroyed 2,900 hectares (6,425 acres) of land—equivalent to 9 per ...

Rintaro Sasaki, the left-handed power hitter who set the Japanese high school home run record (14) while playing at Hanamaki Higashi High School (Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan), has made a big first ...

TOKYO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Firefighting efforts continued on Monday as a forest fire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate Prefecture entered its sixth day, local media reported. The fire, which broke ...

Hospitality group IHG Hotels & Resorts has entered an agreement with Odate Royal Hotel, a subsidiary of hotel development and management company FET SYSTEM, to launch ANA Holiday Inn Iwate ...

More than 2,000 firefighters are battling Japan's biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory. One person died last week in ...