Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire that burned through old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern ...

A fire ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese coastal city on Wednesday, with ...

One person has reportedly died and 170 homes have been damaged following a large fire outbreak in the Saganoseki district of ...

Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a ...

The fire began in the evening and spread quickly due to strong winds, engulfing an area of about 48,900 square metres—roughly ...

Earlier, it was reported that at least 170 homes were damaged and a man in his 70s was unaccounted for, according to Japan’ s ...

Scores of residents were forced to evacuate as the blaze neared Oita on the southern island of Kyushu. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

The fire started during strong winds Tuesday evening near a fishing port in the city of Oita and spread to a forest. Oita is ...

At least 170 buildings in Japan's southern city of Oita were affected by the fire. TOKYO: One person was unaccounted for ...

A fire ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese coastal city on Wednesday, with ...