Nagano, Japan offers seemingly endless opportunities to enjoy year-round nature activities and tour historic routes. TravelAge West sat down with Shuichi Abe, Governor, Nagano Prefecture, to ...

Short-staffed ski resorts in Nagano Prefecture are increasingly relying on foreign labor, and employers are dangling free use of the winter facilities to secure enough workers for the season.

MATSUMOTO, Nagano -- A total of 262 people, including tourists, were isolated in Nagano Prefecture after trees apparently toppled by the weight of gla ...

A ski resort in Nagano Prefecture will ask three snowboarders who became lost and spent Monday night in the mountains near Nozawa Onsen ski resort, to pay for the cost of their rescue. On Monday ...

NAGANO -- Six male skiers from Finland were rescued by helicopter from a ravine at Nozawa Onsen Snow Resort in Nagano Prefecture on Jan. 13, after becoming stranded the previous day.

Three foreign tourists were rescued after being caught in an avalanche on Sunday at a ski resort in Otari village of Japan's Nagano prefecture, local media reported.

One of two foreign men swept up in an avalanche in Japan while back-country skiing in the central prefecture of Nagano and found without vital signs on Monday was U.S. professional skier Kyle ...

Two men were confirmed to have died in a backcountry accident near a ski resort in Nagano Prefecture, police said Monday, a day after the pair were caught in an avalanche. Authorities said they ...

TOKYO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Three foreign tourists were rescued after being caught in an avalanche on Sunday at a ski resort in Otari village of Japan's Nagano prefecture, local media reported.

The Nagano Prefecture resort town of Karuizawa has long been associated with green, natural energy.

Tokyo — World champion halfpipe skier Kyle Smaine and another skier died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan over the weekend. Police in Nagano Prefecture said ...