In Niigata Prefecture, Japan, a good old fashioned snowball fight is taken seriously. So seriously in fact, this cold weather sport has become an annual event.

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The body of a 98-year-old man was found covered in snow on the ground beneath the eaves of a shed on his property in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, on Thursday. Police said Nobuchika Higuchi, who ...

Uonuma is deep in Japan’s so-called snow country, a region that has hefty amounts of snowfall every winter. More than 3m of ...

More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country.

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Two teams. Two minutes. All the snowballs you can throw. Those are the rules at the 35th annual Koide International Snowball Fight in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, where around 120 teams are ...

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