The Ofunato wildfire, in Iwate prefecture, has more than doubled in size in the past three days to become Japan’s largest for 33 years, and as of Sunday covered about 1,800 hectares (4,500 acres).

Scientists have constructed local and nation-wide maps of the radioactive particles ... The temblor and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 this year damaged the Fukushima plant, releasing a large ...