2038 Olympics Could Be Headed for Japan Three decades after Japan hosted the 1998 Nagano Games, the Winter Olympics could return to the country as soon as 2038. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is currently in official, exclusive talks with Switzerland over the 2038 Winter Games, the chairman of the Commission for Future Winter Games Host Cities, Karl Stoss, expressed hope of bringing the Games back to […] Olympics Quinn Brophy | July 1, 2026 0 Comments
How Japan Won Half the Medals in Freestyle Snowboarding at the 2026 Olympics Over the past decade, Japan has produced some of the world’s best freestyle snowboarders. From halfpipe to slopestyle, Japanese domination in World Cups, Olympics, and X Games has become the expectation. At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy, 18 total medals were awarded across three freestyle snowboarding disciplines: halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air. Nine medals — or half of them […] Olympics Quinn Brophy | May 27, 2026 0 Comments
Japanese Ski Resort Reports 282″ Base Japan got buried alive in powder this season. I mean—it always does, but this year it was truly ‘extra deep.’ In the central and northern prefectures of Nagano, Niigata, Gunma, and Aomori, snow depths have reached an astonishing 6 to 7 meters—nearly 20 to 23 feet—with more on the way. At Tengendai Kogen, a resort sitting around 1,600 meters (5,250 […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | April 9, 2025 0 Comments
VIDEO: 600-Inches of Snow in 10 Weeks in Japan Last winter, I was lucky enough to escape the historic California drought and spend 10 weeks in Japan. This was my 4th consecutive season in Japan and it was a record winter. At times (like the beginning of this video), it was impossibly deep. The consistency of the nightly refresh almost became comic. We got over 600-inches of snow in […] Miles Clark | October 13, 2015 1 Comment
Japow! Japan Trip 2015 If you’ve been keeping up to date with Snowbrains.com, then you know founder and CEO Miles Clark has been living a skiers dream out in the Land of The Rising Sun. As I sit here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, watching ski resort after ski resort reduce their operations due to rising temperatures, I can’t help but feel a certain way towards my boss……. what’s that word, oh right jealousy […] Featured Video Michael Etezadi | March 3, 2015 1 Comment
Top 5 Reasons To Go To Japan This Season: Japan is on everyone’s lips these days. It was once a secret, but a secret it is no more. The consistently deep snows of Japan are well known and sought after world-wide. Storms don’t matter in Japan. A cold wind blows out of Siberia, crosses the Sea of Japan, picks up moisture, and that moisture slams into the mountains of Japan resulting in ceaseless snowfall; especially in January and February. There are places on Honshu Island (Tokyo’s island) that receive 1,200 to 1,500 inches of snow per year. That’s 100 to 125-feet of annual snowfall. Whoa… Hakuba, Japan generally gets about 300 […] SnowBrains | December 16, 2014 0 Comments
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