NAGANO--For the 19th year in a row, Nagano ranked as simply the best in terms of prefecture to relocate to for people seeking ...

Majestic curtains of ice hang on a riverside in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, wowing tourists. Water dripping out of a mountain cliff freezes into huge icicles on a bank of the Nishino River ...

Eight people have died and 54 others have been injured in a series of accidents during snow removal work across Japan since ...

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

Those producing it come from the farms of Shinshu, an upland region that roughly matches the boundaries of Nagano Prefecture. In May, an apple leather was unveiled by Sorena, a local fashion ...

A dog and its owner ventured out for a morning walk in heavy snow in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture on February 5, as a winter storm hit parts of the country’s north. Footage filmed by X user ...

At least eight people have died and 54 injured since Feb. 4 from accidents related to snow removal work across Japan due to ...

Seiko Epson is pursuing loftier goals: to become both “carbon negative,” absorbing more of the greenhouse gas CO2 than it emits, and “underground resource free,” using no newly mined oil, metals, or ...

Nagano, a prefecture in central Honshu, played host to the 1998 Winter Olympics and each winter attracts large numbers of skiers to its slopes, including growing numbers of foreign visitors in recent ...

In a speech to business leaders, Naoki Tamura said that the central bank should raise rates to 1% or higher in the fiscal ...