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 ...

Each year between mid-November and April, winter sports fans from around the world flock to Japan for the country’s renowned ...

This is the hilarious moment a snow lift took out two slope users at the same time when it whacked them both on the head. Footage shows a cable chair passing by and striking the two holidaymakers at ...

A man died and two were injured in a stabbing attack at a train station in Nagano, a popular ski resort in central Japan, police said. The incident, suspected to be a random attack with no one ...

The number of skiers and snowboarders in Japan declined to 4.6 million in 2023 from 18.6 million in 1993 due to an increasing number of leisure activities and the declining birthrate, according to a ...

The incident, suspected to be a random attack with no one targeted in particular, occurred near JR Nagano Station at around 8pm local time on Wednesday. The suspect, an unnamed middle-aged man ...

Skiing great Hermann Maier won four medals at the Olympics - and suffered one of the Games' most terrifying high-speed ...

Many ski resorts in Japan are facing difficulty in staying open. As the number of domestic skiers and snowboarders declines ...

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 ...