Slopestyle snowboard star Jenny Jones has her heart set on Japan - and maybe you should, too. Jones shares her reasons for her love of Japan with the UK's Telegraph. Reason number one: the powder.

Japan is full of small towns and hidden gems that have their own histories, cultural activities, and top-tier accommodations.

Yuki Kadono Q&A: Japan’s place in snowboarding, evolving tricks, more Already one of the best snowboarders to ever come out of Japan, 19-year-old Yuki Kadono—along with Ayumu Hirano and ...

VAIL — If Ayumu Hirano can respond with a mumble, he will. No one has ever called the pint-sized 14-year-old Japanese snowboarding phenom chatty. “He doesn’t talk in his own language either ...

Japan's Ayumu Hirano soared to gold at the men's snowboard halfpipe final on Friday at the Beijing Games, while a tearful Shaun White said he was thankful for his final run despite just missing ...

Hirano, who is only 19, views himself as not only the present in Japanese snowboarding, but someone who can inspire the next generation. "That's why I'm aiming for that gold, ...

The Japanese ski and snowboard team continued to display extraordinary skills at theInternational Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Freeski and Snowboard World Championships.

In the Dew Tour men's superpipe final on Sunday, Japan’s Ayumu Hirano staked claim to the triple, performing a frontside triple cork 1440 (four full rotations and three off-axis flips) in his ...

Moioli, who won Olympic gold in the snowboard cross in 2018, had never triumphed at the freestyle skiing and snowboard world championships in four previous attempts. She won bronze in 2015, 2017 ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) -Japanese snowboarder Rina Yoshika suffered a heavy fall in training on the slopestyle course at the Genting Snow Park on Thursday and will return home, a Team Japan ...

Japanese athletes have consistently been on the podium throughout the FIS Freeski and Snowboard World Championships. With each impressive performance, they continue to find the podium.