Firefighters from around eastern Japan have joined in the effort to slow the largest forest fire in Japan in 30 years after it has burned nearly 3,000 acres of forest in the Iwate prefecture from Tuesday into Friday.

Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of more than a thousand.

A wildfire was spreading on Thursday (February 27) near the coastal city of Ofunato, in Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, leaving at least one dead. What issues are fuelling the German election?

As a dwindling working-age population is causing a severe shortage of care workers in Japan, the country is turning its eyes to robots for a solution. A Japanese university has designed an artificial intelligence (AI) driven humanoid robot called "AIREC" to carry out tasks such as changing diapers or preventing bedsores for older people who need critical care.

Hold Key to Nursing Japan's Ageing Population By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.