Former world champion mogul skier Aiko Uemura decided to take action to protect the Earth where the snow falls when she retired from competition more than a decade ago.

“In 1998 the Winter Olympic Games returned to Japan after 26 years. Snowboarding and curling debuted as official disciplines…,” read the program for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. After the Games ...

In a stadium shaped like a cherry blossom, massive sumo wrestlers and a graceful, diminutive athlete will help welcome the world to Nagano tonight. Kings, queens, princesses and commoners will form an ...

NAGANO, Japan — Olympic T-shirts were difficult to find in Nagano, sweat shirts next to impossible. Snowlet mascot dolls sold out by the end of the first week, and organizers did not replenish the ...

“In 1998 the Winter Olympic Games returned to Japan after 26 years. Snowboarding and curling debuted as official disciplines…,” read the program for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. After the Games ...

The team relay winners in the mens 4x7.5k biathlon during the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. ((Aflo Photo/Allsport/Getty Images)) The Olympics returned to Japan for a second time in 1998, ...