NAGANO--Prefectural police here say the perpetrator of an apparent random fatal stabbing attack may have spent an hour looking for victims before carrying out the crime. The highly publicized ...

Climbing into the mountains, we see salt made from hot spring water, and at the southern tip of Nagano Prefecture, we scale the steep slopes of a tea plantation. A sleepy post station, serving ...

NAGANO--For the 19th year in a row, Nagano ranked as simply the best in terms of prefecture to relocate to for people seeking a better quality of life. The ranking was compiled by monthly magazine ...

2 hours from Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders ... That was not difficult in Jigokudani, or "Hell's Valley", where geothermal activity sends plumes of steam and whiffs of ...