Emergency services are responding to a forest fire in the Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. Video credit: Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Japan.

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

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