This winter brought record-breaking snowfall. On Feb. 22, when workers began clearing snow on the 8-kilometer section between ...

the depth of snow was 111 centimeters in the central part of Aomori, the prefectural capital, 178 percent higher than the average, and 374 cm in the city’s mountainous Sukayu district ...

But it accumulated little by little," he said. Sukayu is buried under five metres (16 feet) of snow, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, reaching the roofs of two-storey buildings.

According to the JMA, as of noon on Jan. 9, 379 centimeters of snow had accumulated in the Sukayu district of Aomori. In Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, 182 cm of snow had accumulated, while the snow ...

Snow is being removed along a winter-closed section of the "Hakkoda-Towada Gold Line" National Route 103 that connects the ...