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

Hyundai Steel declared emergency management mode on Friday, cutting executive salaries by 20 percent and announcing a ...

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.” ...

Japan's government has announced it will release one fifth of the country's emergency rice stockpile, equivalent to 210,000 tons, to combat the steep price of rice that has made the staple food ...

Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency and said state agencies were responding ... One firefighter was flown to a hospital to be treated for burns to the face. Also Read: Japan Witnesses Worst ...

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.

A massive wildfire in northeastern Japan was declared contained Sunday after raging for 12 days, damaging at least 210 ...

Emergency crews have been continuously battling a wildfire in Iwate, Japan. The crown fire, which started on February 26, has destroyed 2,900 hectares (6,425 acres) of land—equivalent to 9 per cent of ...

The first rain fell March 5 since massive forest fires broke out Feb. 26 in the northeastern Japan city of Ofunato, Iwate ...

Firefighters in Japan are struggling to contain the country's most severe wildfire in nearly 50 years, which has left one ...

At least 175 fast-moving blazes in South Carolina have scorched more than 4,200 acres of tinder-dry vegetation, officials ...

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