Heavy snowstorms have been a boon for Japan’s ski fields, but conditions have turned deadly across the country.

Rescuers have saved nearly 70 skiers who were stranded for hours, with some trapped up to 21 metres in the air, after a gondola malfunction in New York.

A TOURIST has died on Japan’s slopes just days after a 22-year-old snowboarder was killed in a separate chairlift incident.

The 27-year-old died after reportedly collapsing while skiing with friends near a Niseko ski resort ...

Michael Hurst had a medical episode and died on the slopes in Hokkaido, making it three Australians in total that have died ...

Six deaths were reported in Akita prefecture, four in Aomori, three in Hokkaido, two in Yamagata and one in Iwate, all in ...

Young, adventurous and having the time of her young life pursuing the Australian dream of living and working in a foreign country, Brooke Day appears to have died in a preventable accident.