The massacre led to the URA’s collapse, and some of the surviving members fled to Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, barricading themselves in a holiday lodge called Asama-Sanso on Feb. 19 ...

Half a century has passed since the Asama Sanso Incident, which involved police laying siege to a mountain lodge near Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, following a bloody purge by ...

In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture ... the landscape was stately Mount Asama, its summit tipped with white.

Murano is known for many works including the Komoro Municipal Koyama Keizo Museum of Art in Nagano Prefecture. The name "Asama" comes from ... This series explores Japan's architectural wonders ...