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

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

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 body of a 98-year-old man was found covered in snow on the ground beneath the eaves of a shed on his property in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, on Thursday. Police said Nobuchika Higuchi, who ...

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 ...

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

Heavy snow is pounding many parts of Japan, with the severe conditions expected to continue through Sunday. Weather officials ...

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

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 ...