Such warnings are designed to prevent fire from occurring or spreading, but there are no nationwide standards.
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The initiative aims to build a network that facilitates cooperation between local governments, companies and nonprofit organizations.
Seven housing units were built on the grounds of a former elementary school in Ofunato’s Akasaki district.
Scientists are confronting the toll that human activity and climate change are already having on forests that...
The wildfire razed a total area of 442 hectares in the city of Imabari and the neighboring...
The inferno has also laid bare South Korea’s demographic crisis and regional disparities.
A forest fire in Okayama Prefecture has been contained, officials said, while another wildfire in Ehime Prefecture...
At least 28 people have died and more than 45,000 hectares of largely forest land in the...
More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast, as...
Fires that started in the southern county of Sancheong have spread to at least five other regions,...
