Yellow sand from China's deserts is expected to hit wide areas of Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday. Weather officials say visibility could be reduced to less than 10 kilometers in areas from western ...

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 ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in 30 years after it has burned nearly 3,000 acres of forest in the Iwate ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Wilfires in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan (EPA) “Aerial helicopter firefighting operations have been underway since this morning. There is no doubt that work to extinguish the ...