TOKYO (AP) — Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in ...

Makino Mantaro, in the Japan Broadcasting Corp ... the end of the last glacial period, and the forest today is primarily unchanged from 8,000 years ago. That was the Jomon Period when ancient ...

One of Japan's most beautiful forests also has a sad association with suicide. But Kyochi Watanabe wants to change that. The vlogger Logan Paul brought the forest into the global public eye when ...

OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--About 1,600 firefighters from 12 prefectures in eastern Japan were battling a forest fire here on the afternoon of Feb. 28. A total of about 1,200 hectares have been ...

In the city of Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan, a forest fire at one point was only about 100 meters from a residential area. Fire officials said the blaze was gradually losing its strength.

a unique nature experience program is underway at a park in Japan's Mie Prefecture. Ueno Forest Park in the Mie Prefecture city of Iga has been running the "Otanoshi Mori no Gakko" (fun forest ...

Forest fires continue to rage in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, five days after the first blaze started. Self-Defense Force helicopters resumed aerial firefighting on Thursday morning.