The forests started to emerge around ... and gathering to farming in settlements. Among the deciduous broad-leaved beech trees live Japanese serows (a Special Natural Treasure of Japan), black ...

Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city.

In Japan, 44% of forest lands are plantations, well above the global average of 3.5%. The country began converting deciduous forests to monoculture conifer plantations in the 1960s to supply cheap ...