NAKANO, Nagano Prefecture—Residents in this normally quiet mountainous city were trying to return to a sense of normalcy on May 26 after being shaken and terrified by a deadly assault and a ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Tundra swans, known as "winter messengers," have flown to the area around the Sai River in the city of Azumino, Nagano Prefecture ... "Tundra" within this site. Japanese original The easy Japanese ...
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.