The Japan Meteorological Agency is forecasting heavy snowfall predominantly in regions of Honshu facing the Sea of Japan as ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local ...

More than 120 teams took part in an epic snowball fight competition which was held in the city of Uonuma in Japan.

Weather officials are warning of heavy snow mainly on the Sea of Japan side from northern to western Japan through Feb. 19, ...

Heavy snow forced flight cancellations at an airport in Hokkaido, Japan. Footage shows the blizzard battering the New Chitose International Airport, blanketing the runway in thick ice on February 11.

The government will release up to 210,000 tons of its stockpiled rice, farm minister Taku Eto says, in a bid to ensure smooth ...

Uonuma is deep in Japan’s so-called snow country, a region that has hefty amounts of snowfall every winter. More than 3m of ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country.

Fujitsu and Yokohama National University announced that they had achieved the world's first weather simulation for ...

A strong winter air pressure pattern continued through Japan on Wednesday, prolonging snowfall on the Sea of Japan side and ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...