A powerful cold air mass and a winter pressure pattern are bringing freezing temperatures to much of Japan and heavy snow to ...

Snow is falling mainly in areas along the Sea of Japan coast from northern to western Japan. Snowfall is expected to intensify in those regions on Wednesday. Even flat areas along the Pacific in the ...

Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city of Otaru serves as the backdrop of a popular 1995 romance blockbuster that continues to bring starry-eyed travelers to the region every ...

Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai continued rewriting the records books at the age of 52, extending his own Guinness World Record for the most individual World Cup appearances to 579 on Feb. 16.

As sightseers from Thailand marveled at the pristine white snow, their gleeful cries echoed throughout the landscape.

That figure doesn’t include those making day trips from Sapporo, Hokkaido’s capital ... In May last year, Fujikawaguchiko, a small town at the base of Mount Fuji, had to erect a large black ...

Royce’ Cacao and Chocolate Town is another must-see destination ... which was sparsely populated and considered Japan’s “next ...

Victory is a virus. This metaphor held true for two Korean figure skaters at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, which wrapped up ...

Japan is battling the coldest wave of the season with record-breaking snowfall in the northern main island of Hokkaido. Traffic has been hit and airports closed. Weather agencies have said the extreme ...

That figure doesn’t include those making day trips from Sapporo, Hokkaido’s capital ... “The snow in Hokkaido is my love letter to winter this year,” she wrote. An Otaru City Hall official ...

Victory is a virus. This metaphor held true for two Korean figure skaters at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, which wrapped up its weeklong competition in Harbin, China, on Friday.