Japan Snow Festival hit by Mother Nature
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It was almost the Snow Festival that wasn't when an unexpected thaw struck opening day of the internationally renowned Sapporo ice sculpture fair.
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At Boston's Ski Ball at the Ritz-Carlton last Friday night, a marvelous thing happened: Outside the window, snow swirled out of a black sky into streetlights below.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japanese gourmets are inviting top chefs from around the world to a festival next February to celebrate good food and rebuild trust after a series of food safety scandals.
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Mother Nature delivered a bone-chilling Christmas to much of the nation Saturday, but holiday travelers made it out in droves despite record snow that shut down highways two days earlier in the central states.
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Japan's majestic peak is also home to tons of discarded trash. FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan -- If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.
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Snow in Baghdad for the first time in living memory delights residents who declared it an omen of peace
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TOKYO - It is typhoon season in East Asia. The fourth to hit in less than a month lashed southern Japan yesterday, unleashing torrential rain, strong winds and high tides that left thousands without power, forced
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Typhoon Tokage, the biggest tropical storm to hit Japan in more than a decade, killed as many as 57 people as it destroyed homes and caused mudslides.
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Persistent rain in northern Japan has triggered fears of fresh landslides in the wake of powerful earthquakes which have shaken the region.
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Bad weather, no new date set Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a new spy satellite. Japanese space agency JAXA scrubbed the launch shortly before the rocket carrying the satellite was due to blast off from Tanegashima island.â¦
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Snow fell on Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, for the first time in 63 years on Wednesday, stirring excitement and curiosity among residents and their children.
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Bad weather in China  causes havoc for millions of people as the country battles the heaviest snowstorms in 50 years
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Japanese authorities were closely monitoring a volcano in a resort area of central Japan on Thursday, a day after its biggest eruption in 21 years.
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GILFORD, N.H. -- Like farmers and postal workers, ski resort operators take a fatalistic attitude toward the weather. And late last week, when several inches of rain was dumped on New England, it wasn't looking so good for what many resorts say is their largest grossing weekend.
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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ARE, Sweden  - Bad weather hit the showcase event at the world Alpine skiing championships on Saturday when the men's downhill had to be postponed because of poor visibility on the upper part of the course.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.