Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale ...

A massive wildfire in northeastern Japan has continued to spread, burning around 3,000 hectares, despite the first rainfall ...

Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the ...

Japanese weather officials are forecasting heavy snow in mountainous areas of the Kanto-Koshin and Tohoku regions. The Japan Meteorological Agency say a rain front and a cold air mass are bringing ...

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Rain appears to have halted the spread of Japan's worst wildfire in more than half a century, officials said Thursday, as residents expressed relief the smoke was gone. The blaze had raged around the ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Ofunato ... This amount does not qualify as heavy rain. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ...

He added he has "high hopes" that snow and rain would help extinguish the fire. The topography of the mountainous coastal ...

Firefighters were battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of ...

But rain and ... heatwaves and heavy rainfall. Other phenomena like droughts, snowstorms, tropical storms and forest fires can result from a combination of complex factors. Japanese baseball ...