Living in Nagano city, Kondo is a member of the Japanese Alpine Club, the Himalayan Association of Japan and the Japan Academic Society of Mountain Culture.
Police officers stand guard near the scene of a standoff after Wednesday's attack A man has been arrested after four people were killed in a rare shooting and stabbing attack in Japan. The alleged ...
INA, Nagano Prefecture--Too much plastic in the ocean was the last straw for the city agriculture promotion center here. So, the center is working to spread the use of plastic-free drinking ...
Ten Japanese bullet trains partially submerged ... The Hokuriku-Shinkansen line trains were parked in a yard in Nagano city. Typhoon Hagibis struck with winds of 225km/h (140mph) on the weekend ...
Nagano is just a 90-minute shinkansen ride from central Tokyo, but for chefs in search of some of Japan’s freshest ingredients, the mountainous prefecture might as well be a world away from the ...
The mountain ranges known as the Japanese Alps are a spectacular backdrop to our ride across Nagano Prefecture, its forests glowing with the late autumn colors. With many 3,000m peaks, Nagano is ...
The season for seeing "water mirrors," when peaks of the Northern Alps are reflected upside down in rice paddies filled with melted snow, has arrived in the city of Azumino, Nagano Prefecture.