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 ...

However, life is not yet back to normal for nearly 1,200 residents of the northeastern coastal city of Japan, who have been forced to stay in evacuation centers since the start of the wildfires ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

Japan is grappling with its largest wildfire in more than three decades, as a blaze continues to devastate the forested area of Ofunato, a coastal city on the east coast of Japan's main island ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres) of forest in Ofunato since it started Wednesday, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency A wildfire continues to rage in a ...

More than 2,000 firefighters have been deployed to combat Japan’s largest forest fire in 30 years, which continues to burn near Ofunato in northern part of the country. This was disclosed on ...