Kobe and Nara cities also experienced their first snow of this season on the night of Dec. 22. The Kanazawa local meteorological observatory in Ishikawa Prefecture issued a special alert for heavy ...

KANAZAWA--Snow began falling in Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 7, a development expected to further hamper efforts to find survivors and deliver relief goods nearly a week after the powerful ...

Perched on the edge of the Sea of Japan, the city of Kanazawa is famed for its seafood and sushi. A morning stroll in the market offers fleshy snow crabs, rock oysters and a host of other delicacies.