Nagano, Japan may be known as the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics, but the destination offers seemingly endless opportunities to enjoy year-round nature activities, as well as to go back in time ...

Garyū Park was so named because the hills on its grounds resemble a dragon (ryū) in repose (ga). It is renowned not just for its 600 somei yoshino trees—mostly around the pond Ryūgaike—but also for ...

“Japow Season” is a powder skier’s favourite time of year: the six-to eight-week window from Christmas to mid-February where moisture-laden clouds from the Sea of Japan clash with frigid Siberian air, ...

Nagano, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press)--Shuichi Abe won a fifth term as governor of the central Japan prefecture of Nagano in an ...

You may remember Nagano, in the Japanese Alps, as the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Kirk Spitzer, writing in the May AARP Bulletin, notes a different distinction: The 2.15 million residents of ...

TOKYO: A landslide that occurred Saturday night (Aug 8) in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, has left around 390 people ...