(Mainichi/Tadayuki Otake) TAKAYAMA, Gifu -- The "Norikura Skyline" mountain road, which remains closed during winter due to heavy snow, opened for summer in this central Japan city on May 15.

Police in Nagano Prefecture said earlier that the two men were among five foreign skiers who were caught in an avalanche Sunday afternoon on the eastern slope of Mount Hakuba Norikura, where the ...

The body of a man was found following an avalanche Sunday on Mount Norikura on the border of Nagano ... in which a layer of freshly fallen snow slides over a dense layer of packed snow underneath ...