OSAKA--The end of the line is finally coming for West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) 381-series express trains, the oldest model still used for regular services on the main island of Honshu.

MORIOKA—Colorful ice-fishing huts in red, yellow and green dot the snow-covered ice on Lake Gandoko here that stretches as ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency says a strong cold air mass and a winter pressure pattern brought snow along the Sea of Japan coast of Hokkaido and Japan's main island of Honshu as well as low-lying ...

A strong cold air mass and winter pressure pattern are causing heavy snowfall along the Sea of Japan coast of Hokkaido and Japan's main island of Honshu, as well as in low-lying areas of the Kinki ...

particularly the northernmost main island, Hokkaido, and along and west of the spine of the Japanese Alps on the largest island, Honshu. A ccording to the Japan Meteorological Agency ...