After evaluating the 111 active volcanoes scattered across Japan, a research committee announced ... Mount Iwatesan in Iwate Prefecture and Kuchinoerabujima island in Kagoshima Prefecture are ...

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 ...

Two other fires were also burning Saturday, one in Yamanashi and another elsewhere in Iwate. There were about 1,300 wildfires across Japan in 2023, concentrated in the February to April period ...

Forest fires in Japan's Iwate Prefecture have forced 3,300 people to evacuate while destroying 84 homes.

IWATE, (Japan): Firefighting efforts continued in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, as the forest fire spread on Friday (Feb 28), and the number of helicopters being used to help put out the fire has ...

Sato, a 46-year-old native of Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, was working as a diving instructor in the southern Thai resort of Khao Lak when the quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan. He was ...

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 ...

A helicopter is pictured as smoke rises due to a wildfire on a mountainside near the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture on Feb 28, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Jiji Press) TOKYO: Japan was battling its ...

More than 2,000 firefighters, backed by military helicopters, are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire ... as the fire rages in the northern Iwate region, killing at least one person last ...