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 ...

Akita, Yamagata and Niigata prefectures are known for their bitterly cold winter weather ... On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila Cliffe explores the textiles and clothing from Japan's ...

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 ...