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 ...

Japan gets so much snow that some regional highways take months to clear. One corridor needs heavy machinery to make travel ...

Seventy-six per cent of the WSL’s broadcast audience last season came from outside of the UK, according to figures supplied ...

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 ...

Many of the world's best hockey players will face off in Italy. What's the format? Who are the favorites and top players?

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

From Japan comes a hospitality model in which architecture, technology and flexibility intertwine to redefine post-pandemic ...

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 ...

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 ...