Cities across the nation are experiencing the season’s harshest cold snap and heavy snow, with temperatures dropping to minus ...

Plum trees, also known as Japanese apricots, were first planted at Hanegi Park in the late 1960s, with more added during ...

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in ...

Residents of northern Japan were sheltering from deep snow up to the rooftops in some areas on Thursday after a two-week whiteout.

We hope you’re hungry, because this upcoming long weekend in Tokyo is all about food and drink festivals. Sound like your ...

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)--Heavy snow has caused 12 casualties in Japan since Feb. 4, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday. By prefecture, three have been dead in Niigata ...

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