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.

Japan secretly executes arsonist for deadly Osaka gaming venue fire - Japan and the US are the only two countries in the G7 ...

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

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 ...

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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) of ...

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 ...