Hovering over the landscape was stately Mount Asama, its summit tipped with white. I had heard about Karuizawa for what felt like the entirety of my childhood. It was the place where my mother had ...

The massacre led to the URA’s collapse, and some of the surviving members fled to Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, barricading themselves in a holiday lodge called Asama-Sanso on Feb. 19 ...

Half a century has passed since the Asama Sanso Incident, which involved police laying siege to a mountain lodge near Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, following a bloody purge by ...

At the foot of Mt. Asama, lies Karuizawa, one of Japan's most well-known resort areas. In the late 1880s, foreign missionaries began building holiday cottages in the town to escape Japan's fierce ...

the Karuizawa Distillery was situated in the shadow of Mount Asama, an active volcano. The Karuizawa Distillery began production in 1957, initially producing malt for Daikoku Budoshu's range of ...