There’s so much snow on the ground in Hokkaido, Japan, that it’s blocking the doors and windows of homes and businesses on ...

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 ...

Without the images, it might be hard to wrap your mind around the amount of snow blanketing the island of Hokkaido in northern ... over the relatively warmer Sea of Japan, generating streamers ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency extended its heavy snowfall warning to around Feb. 9, mainly on the Sea of Japan side ... and 54 cm in Akaigawa, Hokkaido. Kagoshima on the main island of Kyushu ...

This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow. W hat happened: Beginning Monday, heavy snow hammered parts of Japan, particularly the northernmost main island, Hokkaido ...

TOKYO -- Due to the coldest wave of the season, the Japanese archipelago experienced heavy snow mainly on the Sea of ... and central Japan, 60 cm in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and ...

A powerful low-pressure system is unleashing record-breaking snowfall along Hokkaido’s Pacific coast ... in the northern regions along the Sea of Japan, the cold air mass is also pushing ...

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...

This divine powder, known as “Japow,” is the result of Siberian Arctic wind sweeping across the Sea ... Hokkaido: Powder paradise with a Western touch For many skiers, Hokkaido, Japan ...

But this sleepy city tucked away on the west coast of the island of Hokkaido has become the latest ... of the slope is a panoramic view of the Sea of Japan. Since late last month, City Hall ...