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 ...

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

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 ...

According to the Japan ... snow in the 12 hours through 9 a.m. on Feb. 4, setting a fresh 12-hour record in the country. The heavy snow was caused by a low pressure system that came from a high ...

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

The snowfall that blanketed Tokyo is a result of a convergence of cold air and moist atmospheric conditions. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the low-pressure system triggered ...

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 ...

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 ...