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

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. The rules are simple: two teams have two ...

The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises next year in central Japan's earthquake-hit Noto region to ...

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

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

Eight people have died and 54 others have been injured in a series of accidents during snow removal work across Japan since ...

Police in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of stealing cash from a donation box at a temple, and said the man has admitted to similar thefts at temples ...

Nishikan-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Video Recording Date/Time: February 6, 2025 at about 21:00h A strong cold ...

Yamagata–based travel specialist The Hidden Japan has launched a new collection of multi-day tours showcasing local crafts ...

Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...