For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Legend has it that Omiwatari is the route Takeminakata, the male god of the Suwa Taisha shrine ... Celsius for the water and 0 C for the air at a weather station on the south side of the lake on Jan.

Naomasa recalls how the wartime Japanese public ... even criticized the presence of the “war god for making the city a target of Allied air raids.” Despite feeling uncomfortable about being ...