Japan's Biggest Fire in Nearly 50 Years Ravages 170 Buildings, Kills One By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -A fire ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --Japan early Friday executed a 58-year-old man convicted of killing five people in a fire he ignited at a pachinko parlor in Osaka 17 years ago, the first death-row inmate to be put to ...

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 ...

Airbus has received a H160 helicopter order from Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) to enhance the country's nationwide emergency response.

Firefighters in Oita, Japan, were battling an out-of-control fire Wednesday morning that has burned through a neighborhood.