The town of Hakuba in northern Nagano Prefecture is no stranger to global attention. A winter sports mecca, it hosted the alpine and Nordic skiing competitions at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

The ski tour bus was traveling on National Route 18 near the border between Nagano and Gunma prefectures in the early hours of Jan. 15, 2016, when it hit a guardrail on a downhill curve and ...

U.S. Ski & Snowboard secures sponsor extension ... seven years since his Winter Olympics debut with a borrowed sled in Nagano, Shiva Keshavan cannot help feeling that the more things change ...

Sintra, just outside Lisbon, is Portugal’s fairytale antidote to summer heat. Thanks to its unique microclimate and Atlantic ...

Developer Kitano Construction Corp., owner of the Kitano at 66 Park Ave., has sued the property’s operator of the last couple of years, Prince Hotels, for allegedly running the business into the ...

Nagano Mayor Kenji Ogiwara, a two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist, and Gaku Hirasawa, a former Olympic athlete and mayor of ...

Étienne de Montille is a famous producer in Burgundy with a château in Puligny-Montrachet, a busy winery in Meursault, and an ...

Fifteen years ago, Myer suggested to his good friend and skiing buddy Peter Yates, famed for his work with Macquarie Bank and then the Packer, Myer and Fox families, that he hike the Milford. Yates ...

In 2017, he committed himself to establishing wine operations in Santa Barbara County in southern California and, even more exotically, in Hokkaido, the large northern island that is home to Japan’s ...

JNTO new data shows the number of Aussies visiting Japan during April has increased by 42.6 per cent compared to the previous ...

With less than one year to go until Milano Cortina 2026, let's take a look at the Netherlands' top moments from the ...