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ASIAN WINTER GAMES

The Saudi Arabia delegate waves the OCA flag during the closing ceremony of the Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, on Feb. 14.
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Aug 25, 2025
Olympic Council of Asia says Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia ¡®on schedule¡¯
Saudi Arabia is supposed to host the next edition of the regional winter competition in a move derided by environmental groups.
Trojena, the ski resort that is scheduled to host events during the 2029 Asian Winter Games, is part of the planned Saudi megacity of NEOM, which has faced a string of challenges in recent years.
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Aug 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia and Olympic Council weigh moving Asian Winter Games
The event is seen as a key marker for Saudi Arabia¡¯s global ambitions and the kingdom could eventually simply choose to scale back plans for the planned ski resort.
South Korea's Choi Min-jeong (center) competes in the women's short track speedskating 1,000-meter final during the Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, on Sunday.
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Feb 10, 2025
Choi Min-jeong grabs three golds for South Korea at Asian Winter Games
Short track is one of the few sports with genuine world class competition at the Winter Asiad.
Japan's Kaori Sakamoto celebrates after finishing in third place at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Grenoble, France on Dec. 7, 2024.
OLYMPICS / Winter Sports
Feb 6, 2025
Olympics on horizon as China hosts Asian Winter Games
The Games crucially come just a year ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.
Japan Times
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Oct 8, 2022
Choice of Saudi Arabia for Asian Winter Games may mark chilling new reality for events
For the biggest events, hosts are becoming harder to find than snowstorms in the Arabian desert.
Japan Times
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Oct 4, 2022
Saudi Arabia to host 2029 Asian Winter Games in desert megacity
The $500 billion project, which is scheduled to feature a year-round winter sports complex when it¡¯s completed in 2026, will become the first West Asian city to host the event.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Feb 28, 2017
JSF erred in sending Uno to Asian Winter Games
What a difference a week makes.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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