Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo suspected of smuggling cannabis from U.S.
Former Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly smuggling cannabis from the United States for profit. The narcotics control department of the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare also searched his home the same day. According to the department, Kokubo, 31, a ...
A Japanese Olympic medalist has admitted causing a collision that injured several people last month in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, investigative sources said Wednesday. He is suspected of fleeing the scene despite the driver of the other vehicle, a 40-year-old woman, sustaining minor injuries. Police plan ...
Snowboarder Yuto Totsuka wins men's halfpipe gold at World Cup finals
Yuto Totsuka overcame challenging weather conditions at Mammoth Mountain in California to win the men's snowboard halfpipe finals at the World Cup season finale on Saturday. Totsuka, a silver medalist from last month's world championships in Utah, had a top run score of 95.75 points ...
Raibu Katayama, Yuto Totsuka place second, third in halfpipe at U.S. Open
Raibu Katayama and Yuto Totsuka finished second and third, respectively, on Sunday in the men's halfpipe competition at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail, Colorado. Katayama, 23, who finished seventh at last year's Pyeongchang Olympics, grabbed silver with 90.49 points on the 22-foot halfpipe at ...
Miyabi Onitsuka places third in women's slopestyle final at U.S. Open
Miyabi Onitsuka placed third in the women's slopestyle final Friday at the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships at Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado. Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand claimed a triple crown with victory, adding to her gold medal at X Games Aspen and the ...
Snowboarder Chloe Kim has long been in a class by her herself in the lofty subjects of double corks and front-side twists. Soon, instead of defying physics, she could be learning some. And instead of making history, she will study it. Kim is trading in a ...
Teenager Yuto Totsuka finished second in the men's superpipe event on Sunday at the Winter X Games in Aspen. In his X Games debut, the 17-year-old posted 90.00 points on his first and best run that featured a frontside 540 grabbed stalefish and a massive ...
Teenager Yuto Totsuka posted a 92.00-point run on Saturday and finished second at the men's halfpipe World Cup in Switzerland. The 17-year-old snowboarder bookended his soaring run with frontside double corks, but was upstaged by Australia's Scotty James, who claimed his second victory of the ...
Madarao: The tree skiing capital of Japan?
The Madarao Kogen ski resort prides itself on two things: its powder snow ("Madapow!") — enjoying over 10 meters of fresh snow annually — and its tree skiing. It is less well-known than some of its rivals within the prefecture, but that just ...
Where to buy ski and snowboard gear in Tokyo
Need winter sports equipment? The Kanda-Ogawamachi district to the east of Jinbocho Station is far and away the best place to purchase ski and snowboard gear in the capital.
Snowboarders Reira Iwabuchi, Miyabi Onitsuka finish 1-2 in women's big air event in season opener
Reira Iwabuchi and Miyabi Onitsuka claimed gold and silver, respectively, Saturday in the women's big air at the snowboard World Cup season opener in Cardrona, New Zealand. Iwabuchi landed backside and frontside 720 mute grabs at Cardrona Alpine Resort to net 174.40 points and first ...
Gurimu Narita captures men's snowboarding gold medal at Pyeongchang Paralympics
Gurimu Narita won gold Friday in men's snowboarding banked slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics. The Osaka native claimed his second medal at these games after he finished with the best time in the SB-LL2 classification of 48.68 seconds on his last of three runs ...
