Parts of the southbound lane of the Kan-Etsu Expressway were shut down due to an accident involving multiple cars on Monday, February 17, snarling traffic. The northbound lane was also closed due to ...

A strong cold air mass and a winter pressure pattern are likely to bring heavy snow to areas along the Sea of Japan coast through Wednesday.

A cold wave is once again approaching Japan. Japanese weather officials say a strong winter pressure pattern is expected to ...

Japan has been grappling with continuous heavy snowfall in recent days, with Niigata Prefecture, located along the Sea of ...

One person has died and four more have been seriously injured due to heavy snow in parts of Japan, according to the Fire and ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local ...

A T-rex costume race was held at the 76th Tokamachi Snow Festival in Niigata Prefecture central Japan.The friendly ...

In Niigata Prefecture, Japan, a good old fashioned snowball fight is taken seriously. So seriously in fact, this cold weather sport has become an annual event.

Heavy snow has led to 12 deaths in Japan since Feb. 4, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday. By prefecture, ...

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

Record-breaking snowfall across Hokkaido and Sea of Japan coastal areas of Honshu on Feb. 8 brought traffic and train ...