Video taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows efforts to extinguish a forest fire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Firefighting efforts continued on Monday as a forest fire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate Prefecture entered its sixth day, local media reported.

The Mulawarman University in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, welcomed 12 Japanese students to participate in a program titled ...

Precise digital snapshots of Japan’s forests captured by aerial survey are enabling progressive forestry practices that are profitable and sustainable. This finely grained data will aid ...

Twenty years on, the multi-layered mass of shrubs and trees resembles a mini native forest, offering a maintenance-free ...

Nezuko was found in the forest of Japan before being bitten by a tick in the U.S. She's looking for her forever home at MaxFund Animal Adoption Center.

A growing swath of mountain forests in Japan are not being tended to properly, mainly due to falling lumber prices, fueling concerns about the nation’s ability to maintain the functions of ...

Japan’s overall food exports broke a value record in 2024, even as the country grapples with China’s ban on seafood imports from the country.

One reason why there was no legal penalty can be found in the lush remote forests in northern Japan. One day in late July, amid the sweltering heat, about 20 people were making their way through ...