{"id":337357,"date":"2026-04-23T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wildfires-tear-across-northern-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:00:41","slug":"wildfires-tear-across-northern-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/wildfires-tear-across-northern-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires tear across northern Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/5AHklAkHPgM\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Wildfires tear across northern Japan\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5AHklAkHPgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Residents of hundreds of homes in Iwate, northern Japan, have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires broke out on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Fires burned more than 150 hectares of forest and damaged seven buildings in the rural area, Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary, Minoru Kihara, said on Thursday. 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