THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 20, 2020 at 15:40 JST
Tourists board a bus near the train station in Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture, on Dec. 19 after record snowfall turned the surroundings into a winter wonderland. (Koichi Ueda)
Three elderly people died in Yamagata Prefecture between Dec. 18 and 19 as they toiled to remove snow after heavy snowfall blanketed northeastern Japan along the Sea of Japan, according to prefectural police. [Read More]
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