Organizers of next year’s Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, have claimed victory in a long-running fight with the International Olympic Committee over the men’s downhill course. Nagano organizing ...

NAGANO—An English-language video and online article were released here, urging tourists to take proper safety procedures if they are tempted to go backcountry skiing on the mountains of Nagano ...

Former world champion mogul skier Aiko Uemura decided to take action to protect the Earth where the snow falls when she retired from competition more than a decade ago.

TOKYO – An overnight tour bus on its way to a ski resort in central Japan careened off a mountain road early Friday, killing 14 passengers and injuring 27 others. Fire and disaster management ...

With 100 days until the opening of competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan, the 3-year-long war of wills and words over the men’s downhill ski course is intensifying minute by minute. In the ...

Are you looking to try something different this season? Some of the deepest powder skiing in the world can be found across the Pacific Ocean in Japan. Here's why.

RUSUTSU, HOKKAIDO, Japan — Some people have snow-riding bucket lists; I have a Mount Rushmore: Ski the European Alps (checked that one off as a kid first learning to ski in Bavaria when my U.S. Air ...

A 50-yer-old man died after he was buried by snow while backcountry skiing in a national forest near a ski resort at Nozawa Onsen Village, Nagano Prefecture, on Monday. According to police, Norikazu ...

Alaska? Heli-skiing? Nope, just a typical powder day in Japan's Nagano region, a famed Winter Olympic venue. This is part of an ongoing series. In the original feature I explain why you should sit ...

A 6-year-old girl was in a critical condition in hospital on Sunday after she fractured her skull while skiing in Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. The accident occurred at around 10:30 a.m. at a ski ...

The Winter Olympics have been held in two different regions of Japan, Hokkaido/Sapporo and Nagano, yet for decades the island nation has remained off the radar of most Americans as a ski destination.

Smaine was on a business trip in Nagano, according to a fellow skier. Kyle Smaine, a U.S. professional skier who was the halfpipe gold medalist in the 2015 world championships, died Sunday in an ...