As winter nears, Lake Suwa provides an intimate reminder of damage wrought by climate change – and its ability to erase the very things people hold most dear.

Lake Suwa is nestled in the mountains of central Nagano Prefecture, about three hours by train from Tokyo or just over two hours by train from Nagoya. This makes it a great weekend getaway for ...

Lake Suwa sits in the Kino Mountains of central Japan, in a region sometimes called the Japanese Alps. When the lake freezes over, daily temperature changes cause the ice to expand and contract ...

For hundreds of years, Shinto priests living on the banks of Lake Suwa, in the Nagano Prefecture of Japan, watched the surface of the lake freeze solid each winter. Partway through the winter, the ...

Grand Seiko’s latest watch is inspired by Lake Suwa, close to the company’s design studio in Shinshu, Japan. The most prominent feature of the timepiece is its dark blue dial, which has a wave ...

As winter nears, Lake Suwa provides an intimate reminder of damage wrought by climate change – and its ability to erase the very things people hold most dear.

In fact, Lake Suwa has not fully frozen over — what locals call “an open sea” — for 18 of the past 25 years.

SUWA, Nagano -- A natural phenomenon called "Omiwatari," in which ice forming on the surface of Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture splits to create a mountain rangelike crease, has not appeared for ...

Epson was founded in 1942 on the shores of Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, and even as it has grown to be the global company it is today, its culture is still rooted in the Nagano countryside.

Almost every winter, after Lake Suwa in the Japanese Alps freezes, the male Shinto god Takeminakata crosses the ice to visit the female god Yasakatome at her shrine, causing a ridge known as the ...