A system of road sprinklers using geothermally heated water helps with snow and ice removal in Japan to keep citizens safe in ...

AOMORI -- Snow removal work is in full swing along a stretch of a northern Japan road that becomes a "snow corridor" with meters-high walls of the white stuff on either side. Snow is being removed ...

Ski resorts in Japan are prized for ... a few hundred miles by road northeast of Washigatake, visitor numbers are down this year even though the snow has been good and plentiful, a spokesman ...

Heavy snowstorms continue in areas along the Sea of Japan. Although ... driving conditions due to snow. Rail company JR East reported a temporary suspension of high-speed Shinkansen trains on ...

TOKYO – Researchers have found that global warming contributed to the unusually heavy snowfall that hit Japan’s Tokachi ...

The transport ministry announced Tuesday that highways in the Tokyo metropolitan area will be closed as a preventive measure ahead of a forecast for heavy snow later in the day. The closures are ...

TOKYO - Ski resorts in Japan are prized for ... combined with the resort’s mile-high elevation, did not help. The snow forced Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort, about 19km by road from Kagura, to close ...

TOKYO: Ski resorts in Japan are prized ... combined with the resort’s mile-high elevation, did not help. The snow forced Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort, about 12 miles by road from Kagura, to close ...