Majestic curtains of ice hang on a riverside in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, wowing tourists. Water dripping out of a mountain cliff freezes into huge icicles on a bank of the Nishino River ...

“Juhyo” ice monsters once inhabited a wide area of the Japanese archipelago but are steadily disappearing due to climate change. The phenomenon, rarely observed outside the country, is a ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency’s sea ice forecast calls for the drift ice scattered around the coast of Abashiri and northward to approach other coasts by around Jan. 28.

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

With little information to go by, the Austrians Albert Leichtfried, Markus Bendler and photographer Hermann Erber travelled to Japan in search of the country's ice climbing potential. Apart from ...

Note: The ice trees at Zao Onsen Ski Resort, known as juhyo in Japanese, are also often referred to as "snow monsters" in English. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi ...