About 4,600 people remain under government-issued evacuation orders as the fire continues to burn.
Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades.
According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency at least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around the northern Japanese city of Ofunato since Thursday.
About 4,600 people remain under government-issued evacuation orders as the fire continues to burn.
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