Heavy snowfall affected parts of Hokkaido from the night of Monday, February 3, into Tuesday, February 4. The Pacific side of Hokkaido recorded the highest snowfall on record in the country ...

Obihiro, Hokkaido Obihiro City has seen the highest fresh accumulation of snow over a 12-hour period since Japan started taking statistics. 120 centimeters was recorded overnight Monday through ...

The peaks of Japan’s highest mountain are usually dusted in snow by early October, but as of Tuesday the summit has remained bare – raising the alarm of the impacts of the climate crisis on ...

Snow usually dusts the summit of Japan’s tallest mountain by early ... they rose to 1.6C (34.9F), the highest since 1932. This warm spell followed Japan’s hottest summer on record, influenced ...

But because of warm weather, this year no snowfall has yet been observed on Japan's highest mountain, said Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Local Meteorological Office. That marks the latest ...