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

A major fire in Oita, Japan, has led to the evacuation of 175 people, with one person still missing. Firefighters are ...

The largest urban fire in Japan in nearly 50 years has killed one person and damaged 170 buildings in a residential area of the Japanese city of Oita. Firefighters were still struggling to extinguish ...

A massive fire ripped through more than 170 buildings on Tuesday night in a neighbourhood in southwestern Japan.