At least 68 people died during the winter – all but 10 of them over 65 – when record-breaking snow hit the country’s north.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavy snow covered parts of northern Japan on Wednesday, February 4, as forecasters warned of blizzard conditions still to come.

Dozens of people have died, including two Australians, as record-breaking snowfall blankets the north Dozens of people have died in Japan after record-breaking snowfall blanketed northern regions of ...