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US national figure skating champion Ilia Malinin just turned 20 in December 2024, one month before winning his third national ...

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Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

Cities across the nation are experiencing the season’s harshest cold snap and heavy snow, with temperatures dropping to minus ...

A curated guide to essential gear, from technical layers to looking suave at après, by the brands that define winter in Japan ...

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Uonuma is deep in Japan’s so-called snow country, a region that has hefty amounts of snowfall every winter. More than 3m of ...

In central Japan, just under two hours from Tokyo by bullet train ... undeniably magnetic – they were the stage for the 1998 Winter Olympics – we are not here to carve through powder.

UONUMA, Japan - More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, ...