The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

WorldView: More than 20 feared dead in Japan office building fire 03:14. Tokyo — Japanese police were investigating a fire that swept through a clinic on Friday, killing at least 24 people, as ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

A December 2024 fire at a waste processing plant here was likely caused by a lithium-ion battery improperly mixed into ...

A Japan Airlines plane is on fire on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday, January 2, in Tokyo, Japan. Kyodo News/AP. Seventeen passengers on board Japan Airlines flight 516 were injured after ...

Ruling party lawmaker Yosuke Tsuruho apologized and said, 'I lacked consideration for the disaster-hit areas.' ...

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson and murder. Police were searching for a possible suspect.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Feb. 5, 2020) -- For the third year in a row, Installation Management Command -- Pacific has recognized U.S. Army Garrison Japan Fire and Emergency Services as the best large ...

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Members of the U.S. Army Garrison Japan fire department recently received awards in an Army fire and emergency services competition for their efforts in 2022.

At least 17 people on the Japan Airlines plane were injured, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said, per Reuters. Four of the injured were transported to the hospital, but none of the ...

Fire engines are usually stripped of their parts before being exported. Kiri, like so many other Japanese fire engines, arrived without firefighting equipment, but Lappin made it a mission to ...