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The massive wildfires that erupted on Sunday (March 23, 2025) in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan have destroyed more than 900 hectares of land. (Jiji Press) OKAYAMA/MATSUYAMA, Ehime ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Over 900 hectares have been destroyed in total in wildfires that began on Sunday in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan. In the Ehime city of Imabari, the total ...

Wildfires that began on Sunday in Ehime and Okayama prefectures in western Japan have burned through over 900 hectares of land. In the Ehime city of Imabari, 417 hectares had been burned as of ...

Forest fires continue to rage in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, five days after the first blaze started. Self-Defense Force helicopters resumed aerial firefighting on Thursday morning.

Wildfires continued to spread on two sides of the Seto Inland Sea in Ehime and Okayama prefectures on Tuesday, the third day since they broke out, expanding the burned areas. In Imabari, Ehime ...

A wildfire that began over the weekend in Ehime Prefecture continued to spread Tuesday as extinguishing efforts were under way. A separate fire in Okayama Prefecture that began around the same ...

TOKYO, March 24 — Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Forces have joined firefighting operations in western prefectures Okayama and Ehime, with evacuations ordered for nearly 2,700 local residents, reported ...

A separate blaze also broke out Sunday in Ehime Prefecture between the cities of Imabari and Saijo across approximately half a square mile, where almost 1,900 people have been evacuated and one ...

Another forest fire has broken out in the city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture. Firefighting officials received a report about the blaze on Sunday afternoon. They say about 300 people are working ...