Snowfall in Japan kills a man

Snowfall hits Japan, killing at least one personTOKYO, January 25 - RIA Novosti. Heavy snowfalls that hit Japan with the arrival of a cold front have led to the death of at least one person, Hirokazu Matsuno, secretary-general of the Japanese government, said during a press conferenceWith the beginning of the week, a cold front came to Japan, causing cooling and snowfalls over a vast territory of the country. In particular, the air temperature in the village of Rikubetsu in Hokkaido dropped to minus 26.9 degrees on Wednesday morning. In Tokyo and Osaka in the morning, the air temperature was minus 3 and minus 2 degrees, respectively. During the day, up to 88 centimeters of snow fell in a number of regions.

Precipitation has already led to disruptions in the movement of trains, delays in aircraft departures, power outages