'It has been one week since a forest fire broke out in the town of Otsuchi. The blaze spread at two locations, and the burned area has reached 1,633 hectares. It is the second largest such fire in Japan since the Heisei era (1989-2019).''Every effort must be made to quickly extinguish the wildfire in northeast Japan's Iwate Prefecture, and everything possible done to support residents forced to live as evacuees.'https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260430/p2a/00m/0op/032000c#Wildfire #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Iwate #Japan