Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday that the government would consider whether to declare the wildfire burning through the northeastern part of the country a “major disaster.” ...

The city of Ofunato in northeastern Japan has begun issuing certificates that residents affected by the recent wildfires need to claim public financial aid to rebuild their lives.

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba was considering declaring the country’s biggest wildfire in decades a “severe disaster” as the blaze continued to rage for the eighth day, reducing ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...