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 ...

In just 12 hours, the city of Obihiro got 47 inches (about 4 feet) of snow, the highest on record for the city according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snow fell on Japan's highest peak about a month later than expected, as the country recovers from one of its hottest summers. The news was welcomed, with locals celebrating and sharing photos of ...

Last year, snow fell on the mountain on Oct. 5 ... The iconic mountain, Japan’s highest, has attracted record numbers of tourists in recent years, leading to complaints about overcrowding ...