Heavy snow has piled up in parts of the region, triggering injuries and deaths and prompting officials to mobilize resources as more cold and snow loom.

Heavy snow in northern Japan has blocked roads and caused dozens of deaths nationwide. As of Wednesday, 15 prefectures have been affected, with snow reaching up to 6.5 feet in some areas.

The heaviest snowfall in recent years has left at least 35 dead and nearly 400 injured since late January. The provisional ...

Snowfall in parts of Japan has also left about 200 people injured. One city recorded 72 inches of snow, the highest in almost 40 years.

Large parts of Japan especially along the Sea of Japan coast remain in the grips of a strong winter pressure pattern that is dumping heavy snow. A heavy snow alert is issued for Tottori and Fukui ...

TOKYO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Soldiers and swarms of snow plows battled in Japan on Tuesday to clear record-breaking snowfalls that have buried some northern and western cities, as the death toll rose to ...

Unusually heavy snow killed at least 30 people in Japan in the past two weeks, officials said on Tuesday, as the government deployed troops to help clear huge drifts that left residents in the country ...

Severe snowfall and related accidents across Japan have killed at least 29 people, including foreign nationals on holiday, in recent weeks.

Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's ...

As of Wednesday, 15 prefectures have been affected, with snow reaching up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) in worst-hit areas. The unusually heavy snowfall is largely due to a cold air mass from the Arctic that ...

TOKYO — Unusually heavy snow in Japan has been blamed for 30 deaths in the past two weeks, officials said Tuesday, including a 91-year-old woman found under a three-meter pile outside her home. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man walks through the snowfall amid piled-up snow at the Tottori Sand Dunes in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Mandatory ...