Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan ... prefecture's Nagai City, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Tokyo, where snow piled up higher than 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) Saturday. In Niigata ...

A man throws a snowball at the 35th Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan ... every winter. More than nine feet of snow had accumulated in the city by Sunday ...

The 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma in Niigata ... winter. More than three meters (nine feet) of snow had accumulated in the city by Sunday, according to the Japan ...

Niigata is renowned for its ... UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Japan. Carrots grown in the autumn are left in the ground through the winter under a thick layer of snow, before ...

Experience the beauty of the winter season in the east Asian ... Echizen Ono Castle, Fukul, Japan; * Lake Kamo, Niigata, Japan; * Mount Yotei, Hokkaido Japan; * Sankai Falls, Hokkaido, Japan ...