A video shows the hilarious moment a chairlift hits two skiers in the head at Sierra Resort Hakuba in Nagano, Japan.

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

Mycl Japan Co. of Komoro city in the same prefecture is developing a leather using mushroom material. Nagano Prefecture is the nation’s largest producer of mushrooms. “The mushroom leather we ...

Each year between mid-November and April, winter sports fans from around the world flock to Japan for the country’s renowned ...

As the eldest torchbearer for the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, 83-year-old Luo Zhihuan was ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

For example, they include 20 of the 25 municipalities in Akita Prefecture and 36 of the 77 municipalities in Nagano Prefecture ... Yokote, the second-largest city in the northern prefecture ...

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A recent incident in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture has brought attention to the increasing number of bear encounters in ...

1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...

I was teaching a class of tax officials from around Japan in Tokyo ... We were living in Nagano then, and local food companies were trucking relief food to Kobe. We moved to Kobe after the ...

Looking for a more authentic and less crowded Japan ... find Nagano Prefecture, where both dramatic landscapes and cultural riches await. In the middle of the prefecture, the charming city of ...