You've heard of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes. Check out what a larger sea and bitter cold air helped to generate in ...

A powerful cold wave has brought continuous snowfall to many areas across Japan, causing casualties and wide-spread disruption to people's lives. According to the Japanese government, the ongoing ...

Snow-covered cherry blossom trees and a castle moat in this northern Japan city are currently lit up in pink in the evenings, ...

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

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People remove snow from a street in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, ...

Japan is battling the coldest wave of the season with record-breaking snowfall in the northern main island of Hokkaido. Traffic has been hit and airports closed. Weather agencies have said the extreme ...

Olympic champion Ryoyu Kobayashi claimed his first ski jumping World Cup win in 11 months on Saturday in front of his home ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, 47 inches of snowfall occurred during a 12-hour period on Monday in Obihiro, ...

Heavy snow is pounding many parts of Japan, with the severe conditions expected to continue through Sunday. Weather officials ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...