TOKYO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A series of accidents have occurred across Japan's Hokkaido, involving falls from rooftops during snow removal that left two people dead and one injured.

18 and 19 as they toiled to remove snow after heavy snowfall blanketed northeastern Japan along the Sea of Japan, according to prefectural police. Kimino Sugano, an 88-year-old woman, was found ...

A snow plough train cleared tracks in Japan. Footage shows the locomotor removing accumulated snow on the railway road at Kashiwa-no Koukoumae Station in Hirakawa, Aomori Prefecture on December 23.

Heavy snow was forecast mainly for the mountainous prefectures of Nagano and Yamanashi in central Japan on Jan. 24, but even central Tokyo was expected to wake up to white streets. Snowfall was ...