W hat happened: Beginning Monday, heavy snow hammered parts of Japan, particularly the northernmost main island, Hokkaido, and along and west of the spine of the Japanese Alps on the largest ...

Obihiro city in Hokkaido recorded 124 centimeters of ... especially on the Sea of Japan side. Heavy snow will fall mainly inland on the Pacific Ocean side of the Tokai, Shikoku and southern ...

Other causes of death include avalanches and falls into deep, loose snow around big trees. In Japan, the northern island of Hokkaido had reported 28 cases of people being stranded in the mountains ...

The answer to what makes Niseko's snow so amazing lies in its climate. Niseko is in the north of Japan and has two seas on ...

OFUNATO, Japan-Japan battled its ... 2,700ha was razed in Hokkaido. Columns of white smoke billowed from a mountain through the rain and snow on March 5, AFP reporters saw. More wet weather ...

Hokkaido, Japan is among the most attractive winter destinations for Filipinos and tourists from around the world with its ...

a meteorological researcher from Hokkaido University. “I was born in Niigata Prefecture and know snow quality very well. My hometown is close to Nozawa Onsen (a ski resort on Japan’s Honshu ...