Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rises from a site where a massive fire blazed through more than 170 buildings, as seen from a helicopter, in Oita, Oita ...

TOKYO (AP) — Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring ...

One person has died and 170 homes have been damaged following a large fire outbreak in Japan. The fire began on the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 18, in a residential area in the Saganoseki district, 478 ...

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 southern Japanesecity of Oita saw a fire that resulted ...

(Reuters) — Chinese fighter jets directed their fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft over international waters on Saturday near Japan’s Okinawan islands in two separate incidents that Japan’s ...

TOKYO — Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring another ...

(Reuters) — Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had directed fire-control radar at Japanese military aircraft in two “dangerous” incidents near Japan’s Okinawa islands, an account Beijing ...