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 ...

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its ...

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 ...

Set in Matsumoto in the Nagano region, Traditional Japanese House -in Matsumoto Asama Onsen- offers accommodation with free WiFi and free private parking. The property is located 7.9 km from The Japan ...

One of Japan's most popular young stars has been swept up in a cheating scandal with not one but two of her male co-stars, which all of them have denied. Mei Nagano is currently one of Japan's ...

(Kyodo) NAGANO (Kyodo) -- Four automobile mechanic trainees died after their car crashed into a water gate on a river in central Japan on Thursday, according to local police. The police said they ...

Japanese actor Kei Tanaka. Photo from Instagram/kentaaminaka_portrait Nagano made her acting debut in the 2009 film "Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle" and has since become one of Japan’s most ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

In the evolving world of natural weight loss solutions, few products have stirred as much conversation in 2025 as Nagano Lean Body Tonic. Marketed as a metabolism-boosting formula inspired by ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Feb. 9, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country ...

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

1998 at the Big Hat Arena in Nagano, Japan. (Photo by B Bennett/Getty Images) Getty Images Lisa Brown-Miller, a member of the first Olympic champion women’s hockey team, died at age 58 on May 2, ...