Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years

Japan's largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire officials said.

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The roughly 1,800-hectare fire has been burning for days in Ofunato, a city on the east coast of Japan's main island that is about 300 miles northeast of Tokyo. It had grown by 400 hectares since Saturday.