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 — ...

Shiga Kogen offers some of the best intermediate terrain and lower-angle powder skiing in the country. Shiga Kogen is Japan’s highest-elevation resort, meaning deep and cold snow. There’s not much in ...

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 ...

Heavy snowfall in northern Japan and other parts of the country killed at least 17 people ... in her 70s died after she was buried underneath snow that fell off a roof in Nagai city, Yamagata ...

The country's winter season begins in mid ... In contrast, southern and eastern parts of Japan receive much less snow, while some areas, such as Okinawa, remain snow-free throughout the year.

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 ...

If Japan’s Niigata prefecture is known for anything, it’s snow. The snow resorts of Yuzawa. The classic novel “Snow Country,” which Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata wrote at the nearby ...