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 parts of Japan.

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 ...

Summer on Japan's Southern Alps The Southern Alps are located in the middle of the Japanese archipelago. Mountain ranges peaking at an altitude of 3,000 meters continue for over 120 kilometers ...

hemmed in by the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan, with Greater Tokyo to the east and the nation's historic core of Kansai to the west. Within this region, the mighty Japan Alps loom over thatched ...

The contaminated water will be treated again with ALPS before it ... plants in and out of Japan. The Japanese government chose the option to discharge the water into the sea, rather than release ...

The Japan Alps consist of three ranges ... Less than 15km away, on the coast at Toba, pay a visit to an ama diver's hut. Ama, known as "women of the sea", are women divers who employ traditional ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--The Shinhotaka Ropeway aerial tramway has reopened here after a three-month hiatus, offering breathtaking summer views of the Northern Japan Alps. Ropeway No. 2 for ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.Without the images, it might be hard to wrap your mind around the amount of snow ...

During his latest trip to Japan, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi assisted in collecting seawater samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route linking the prefectures of Toyama and Nagano is buried under snow during winter and closed ...

forming streamers of sea-effect snow that reach parts of Japan, along and west of the Japanese Alps. S ome of the heaviest snowfall on Earth: This proximity to Siberian cold air makes Japan's ...