YAMAGATA--Winter in Japan’s northern Tohoku region is often cast as a surreal spectacle concerning the Zao mountain ...

The “snow monsters,” or “juhyo” in Japanese, at the top of Mount Zao in Yamagata, Japan, are actually windswept, snow-covered ...

If you're hitting the slopes, you better watch out for this scary, snowy phenomenon. Every winter in Japan's northern prefectures, snow monsters gather on the mountains for their yearly, um, summit.

Hakkoda in Aomori Prefecture is one of the three most famous places in Japan for Snow Monsters. (The other two are Zao in Miyagi and Mt. Moriyoshi in Akita.) Hakkoda is also something of a Mecca for ...