This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

Mapping out next season’s Japan ski trip? Discovering Snow Country is about to blow up your itinerary in the best possible ...

This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

In this episode, American illustrator Kailene Falls explores the prefecture, meeting the residents and sketching her experiences in Niigata's snow country. More than 300 years ago, the Takada ...

While the country is having a banner ski season ... Other causes of death include avalanches and falls into deep, loose snow around big trees. In Japan, the northern island of Hokkaido had ...

Takakura, Japan — In the kitchen of a traditional ... Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata wrote in Snow Country, his famous 1956 novel about traveling through the region.

But this year, Fuji went without its snow cap for the longest ... seen as a symbol of immortality in Japan’s Shinto and Buddhist traditions. In the country’s oldest known anthology of poems ...