Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to ...

Japan is fighting an extensive forest fire in northern Japan which has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters in Oita, Japan, were battling an out-of-control fire Wednesday morning that has burned through a neighborhood.

Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring another and forcing more than 170 people to evacuate.

TOKYO (AP) — Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring ...