Nagano, Japan may be known as the site of the ... so visitors can enjoy skiing and snowboarding in our many world-class ski resorts. In particular, Hakuba, Shiga kogen, and Nozawa Onsen are ...

Short-staffed ski resorts in Nagano Prefecture are increasingly relying on foreign labor, and employers are dangling free use of the winter facilities to secure enough workers for the season. The ...

The little ski village of Nozawa Onsen often gets overlooked by overseas travelers in favour of more popular snowy escapes like Niseko in Hokkaido prefecture. However, this delightful Nagano ...

NAGANO—An English-language video and online ... These areas, however, are not part of a ski resort and are thus not patrolled. Injured or lost backcountry skiers can find themselves stranded ...

The bodies of two men caught in an avalanche on Sunday have been found in Nagano Prefecture ... said they believed the men were off-piste skiing separately from the rest of the group when the ...

The 31-year-old American was one of two men killed in the slide in the central prefecture of Nagano on January 29. It happened in an unpatrolled area near a ski resort in the village of Otari.