Imagine a lake half frozen and its shores all covered in snow. Yet this frozen lake still teams with life. All the barren trees around the lake turn beautiful when they are covered in snow. In the ...

On Nagano's Lake Suwa, climate change unravels 600 years of history held dear ...

The 76th Suwa Lake Fireworks Festival wows audiences at Lake Suwa in the city of Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 15, 2024. Starting at dusk, large-scale spherical "shakudama" fireworks and nearly ...

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 ...

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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.

Our two-day bus journey from Mount Takao in Tokyo to Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture continues. So far, we have taken six buses and manage to reach Otsuki Station in Yamanashi Prefecture. We then ...

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 ...