As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of more than a thousand. Flames are ...

He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II ... carrying a ...

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

The Ofunato wildfire, in Iwate prefecture, has more than doubled in size in the past three days to become Japan’s largest for 33 years, and as of Sunday covered about 1,800 hectares (4,500 acres).

Smoke rises from a wildfire as officials continue to fight the blaze by Ofunato Bay, near the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture on Friday (AFP photo) TOKYO — Japan was battling its largest wildfire in ...

Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on March 1, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of more than a thousand. Flames are estimated ...

He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles ... as Japan ups its defense ...

At least one person has died and thousands have been evacuated as Japan fights record-breaking wildfires that continue to burn on the main island’s east coast. The Ofunato wildfire, in Iwate ...