Forest fires have been reported in the Japanese prefectures of Nagano and Yamanashi in addition to the fires in the city of ...

Tokyo, vol. 18), by T. Terada and T. Utigasaki, states that the annual loss due to forest fires in Japan is second in magnitude only to that suffered by the United States. Japanese meteorologists ...

Conserving the forest enabled this traditional lion dance to survive. Tenjinzaki was one of the first places to be a focus of modern environmental conservation in Japan. The community has ...

The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres) of forest in Ofunato since it started on Wednesday, authorities said.

TOKYO, Japan — Fire-fighters and helicopters were combating a blaze in a forest on a Japanese island on Friday, with media reports saying it may have been started by nearby military exercises.

In this series we visit several of the Japan’s most famous "kyoju"—the ancient giants of the forest.

Forest bathing became a household name in Japan after the government became concerned that the urbanised and stressed population was becoming cut off from nature. There are now forest therapy ...

A “forest environment tax” will be introduced ... A growing swath of mountain forests in Japan are not being tended to properly, mainly due to falling lumber prices, fueling concerns about ...