Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

The assault in Nagano came a month after a random knife attack on two high school students at a McDonalds outlet in Kitakyushu City on Dec. 14, resulting in one fatality. The article ends by asking, ...

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

Officials say a bicyclist, 58-year-old Donald Steven Ricker, was going east on US 70 when he was hit by a vehicle that ...

With apologies to John Hughes, Molly Ringwald and the rest of the Brat Pack, the Victoria Royals were pretty in pink Friday night in a 5-2 WHL victory over the Vancouver Giants at Save-on-Foods ...

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

MATSUMOTO, Nagano Prefecture—Matsumoto city will raise entrance fees for Matsumoto Castle but will not charge foreign tourists more than Japanese visitors, Mayor Yoshinao Gaun said at a news ...

VAIO Corporation (Headquarters: Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture, President & CEO: Masaki Yamano, hereinafter referred to as ...

Despite an arrest, authorities are concerned about a troubling rise in violence in recent years, potentially linked to ...

The skater was unanimously appointed at the extraordinary electoral conference held in Moscow last Tuesday. He will now take ...

NAGANO--A 46-year ... major rail station in central Japan that left one person dead and two others injured. Nagano prefectural police identified the suspect as city resident Yusuke Yaguchi and ...

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 ...