NAGANO—Okinawa Prefecture once boasted the longest life expectancy in the country, but it has now dropped well out of the top ...

The Japan Times covered the emergence of bear encounters on ski resorts in the Nagano Prefecture. The Hakuba47 Mountain ...

The Winter Olympic Games run from Feb 6 to 22 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and Japan will be hoping to match, or even better, its performance in Beijing four years ago. In 2022, Japan ended ...

Ruggiero hasn't just watched women's hockey grow. The four-time Olympic medalist has lived it, experienced it, and been at ...

Japan has always been a hot spot, come winter, spring or summer. Tours to the country, though aplenty, mostly cover the ...

A rescue worker recalled the 2016 crash of a ski tour bus in Karuizawa in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano that killed 15 people and injured 26 others, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the ...

Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, a former Olympic bronze medalist from Switzerland, died on Sunday January 11. after being ...

The phenomenon of listening bars originated in Japan — and in frenetic Tokyo they offer a unique way to switch off, wind down ...

JTB Corp. has recently launched a winter-only restaurant at a hotel in Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture, which is known as a ...

Nagano Prefecture was the most inquired-about relocation destination in fiscal 2024, reclaiming the top spot for the first time in two years, according to an internal affairs ministry survey. The ...

Some of the best American medal hopefuls for the Milan Cortina Olympics come from figure skating and alpine skiing.

The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka ...