While the country is having a banner ski season, exceptionally heavy snowfall has created challenges for resort workers.

The government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to ...

MATSUMOTO, Japan >> As the number of domestic skiers and snowboarders declines significantly, many ski resorts in Japan are ...

The blaze around the northern city of Ofunato in the Iwate region has raged for more than a week, killing one person and ...

SHIMUKAPPU, Hokkaido—A JR express train was filled ... featuring views of “twin towers” halfway up a ski slope, the tourists departed from the train. In Shimukappu, 538, or 34 percent ...

Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century on Wednesday in a region hit by record-low rainfall, as wet weather gave ...

Wet weather looked poised to offer relief Wednesday as Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century in a northern region hit by record-low rainfall.

Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan’s worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of nearly ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba was considering declaring the country’s biggest wildfire in decades a “severe disaster ...

A private zoo in Sapporo that advertised itself as “the most dangerous zoo in Japan” will close at the end of September, the ...

A regional express train in Hokkaido struck a maintenance vehicle that had been left next to the track on Thursday. The train ...

If I wasn’t totally rid of the jetlag by the time I hit Hokkaido (a 90-minute flight from Tokyo), it was vanquished with a stint in the chalet’s balmy onsen (Japanese hot spring baths).I ...