SHUICHI ABE: Nagano is in central Japan, heading a little north into our mountains. It takes just about one hour to reach Nagano from Tokyo by bullet train, so it is easily accessible for visitors ...

According to preliminary figures, the overall number of alpine accidents in Japan was 298 from January to Dec. 14 this year. The annual record is 300 mountain accidents, set in 2013. Nagano ...

In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture ... as “an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons ...

The Japan News also reported that in Matsumoto, Nagano, about 4,000 cherry trees were seen at their peak on Saturday (April 12) on an ancient tomb against a view of the snow-capped Northern Alps ...

Tokyo — World champion halfpipe skier Kyle Smaine and another skier died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan over the weekend. Police in Nagano Prefecture said ...