Japanese weather officials issued a heavy snow alert for Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Friday morning.

Residents of northern Japan were sheltering from deep snow up to the rooftops in some areas on Thursday after a two-week ...

Snow has been falling mainly on the Sea of Japan side. As of 6:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, 4.84 meters of snow had accumulated in Sukayu in the Hakkoda mountains of Aomori Prefecture and 3.61 ...

More than 20 people have died in heavy snowfalls in Japan since February (see video above). Six of them died while clearing ...