OITA, Japan - A massive fire raging for a third day in the southwestern Japan prefecture was brought under control, except on an uninhabited island it leaped to, the city of Oita said Thursday, after ...

Firefighters and army helicopters are battling a fire that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate.

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