A strong cold air mass intensified relentless snowfall on Friday in parts of Japan, including prefectures of Fukushima, Hokkaido and Niigata, grappling people with blizzards and resulting in road ...

The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises next year in central Japan's earthquake-hit Noto region to ...

Uonuma is deep in Japan’s so-called snow country, a region that has hefty amounts of snowfall every winter. More than 3m of ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country.

Two teams. Two minutes. All the snowballs you can throw. Those are the rules at the 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, where around 120 teams are ...

Known for its signature products, like a $60 titanium mug and a $185 water bottle, Snow Peak is aiming for a bigger slice of ...

Eight people have died and 54 others have been injured in a series of accidents during snow removal work across Japan since ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

A 73-year-old man died Sunday after he fell off the roof of a vacant house while removing snow in Uonuma City, Niigata Prefecture. According to police, Gunji Ichiyama and three other people were ...

The 11 home-based players invited for the D’Tigers’ next phase of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers will open Nigeria’s ...