Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan has killed 17 and injured more ... about 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Tokyo, where snow piled up higher than 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) Saturday.

AOMORI -- A road with massive snow walls on both sides that heralds spring along north Japan's Hakkoda mountains is scheduled to open on April 1. A rotary snowplow scrapes away a wall of snow in ...

Parts of Japan, mainly along the west coast, have been hit hard by heavy snow due to powerful winter ... temperate but varies greatly from north to south. December saw harsh snowstorms in ...

MORIOKA -- Tourists are flocking to the Hachimantai Aspite Line, a scenic road connecting northern Japan's Iwate and Akita prefectures, to see the impressive "snow corridor," a deep snow trench ...

TOKYO: Heavy snow in northwestern Japan since the weekend has left at least three people dead, stranded hundreds of vehicles on highways, disrupted trains and left thousands of homes without ...

AOMORI -- Towering "snow monster" ice-covered trees in Aomori's Hakkoda mountains are now at their most spectacular, drawing visitors from around the world. These unique formations occur when ice ...

But this year, Fuji went without its snow ... in Japan, unseasonably warm weather stretched deep into autumn. Tomoki Tanaka, a researcher at a meteorological office about 20 miles north of Fuji ...