Japan's largest snowball fight tournament Event held in Uonuma, known for heavy snowfall Winner awarded 30 kgs of local Uonuma rice UONUMA, Japan, Feb 13 (Reuters) - More than 120 teams battled it ...

"I saw people wearing goggles and people wearing helmets, that's how intense they expected this big snowball fight to be." She said the cadets were very organized, but the civilians won.

The 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma in Niigata Prefecture, roughly 180 km (112 miles) northwest of Tokyo, was the largest event of its kind in Japan, said 29-year-old head ...

UONUMA, Japan >> More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Feb. 9, ...