The town of Hakuba in northern Nagano Prefecture is no stranger to global attention. A winter sports mecca, it hosted the alpine and Nordic skiing competitions at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

This week, three metres of powder snow will coat Japan’s Central Alps, a region Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata labelled ...

The ski tour bus was traveling on National Route 18 near the border between Nagano and Gunma prefectures in the early hours of Jan. 15, 2016, when it hit a guardrail on a downhill curve and ...

U.S. Ski & Snowboard secures sponsor extension ... seven years since his Winter Olympics debut with a borrowed sled in Nagano, Shiva Keshavan cannot help feeling that the more things change ...

"From Calgary 1988, where I made my Olympic skiing debut, to Torino 2006, where I had the privilege of being the last ...

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Developer Kitano Construction Corp., owner of the Kitano at 66 Park Ave., has sued the property’s operator of the last couple ...

Sintra, just outside Lisbon, is Portugal’s fairytale antidote to summer heat. Thanks to its unique microclimate and Atlantic ...

India has only a handful of ski resorts, three indoor ice rinks, one certified Alpine slope, and no culture of winter sports. "You cannot practise in a pond and hope to win an Olympic medal in ...

Nagano Mayor Kenji Ogiwara, a two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist, and Gaku Hirasawa, a former Olympic athlete and mayor of ...

Fifteen years ago, Myer suggested to his good friend and skiing buddy Peter Yates, famed for his work with Macquarie Bank and then the Packer, Myer and Fox families, that he hike the Milford. Yates ...

Étienne de Montille is a famous producer in Burgundy with a château in Puligny-Montrachet, a busy winery in Meursault, and an ...