M onday, a reporting station at Obihiro, Hokkaido, measured 47.24 inches of snowfall in just 12 hours. That more than doubled the station's previous 12-hour snowfall record in 26 years of data ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan 's northern main island of Hokkaido - disrupting traffic, causing airport closures and ...

Snowfall reached record levels in eastern Hokkaido while blanketing other parts of the Japanese archipelago on Feb. 4, and more snow is forecast for wide areas through Feb. 6. The heavy snow is ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, disrupting traffic, causing airport closures, and delaying deliveries on Tuesday. The Hokkaido prefectural government ...

Tokyo, March 19 (Jiji Press)--Researchers found global warming helped bring extraordinarily heavy snowfall to the Tokachi region of Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, and wide areas along the Sea of ...