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 ...

It’s a major winter sports destination, with some of Japan’s best ski resorts and ... or even poured by geisha in Niigata city. The Echigo-Matsudai rice terraces near Tokamachi are serenely ...

TOKYO – The strongest cold wave of this winter ... (including Niigata prefecture) and Tokai; 50cm in Hokkaido, Kinki and Chugoku; 30cm in northern Kyushu and 20cm in Shikoku. THE JAPAN TIMES ...