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Meet professional athletes, entrepreneurs, activists and environmentalists as well as regular people and readers doing amazing things in Japan and around the world in our interviews, spotlights and Faces in the Crowd stories on Outdoor Japan.
People
All Are We: Interview with Surfer Kelly Potts
Pro surfer Kelly Potts isn't your typical athlete. At a young age, she traded the competitive world for a greater calling: to cre...
Backcountry Snowboarding
Wabi Sabi: A Hokkaido Backcountry Film
If you were in Niseko, Hokkaido this winter, you may have seen a quirky cabin on wheels touring around the neighborhood. This mic...
Ocean and Beach
Free Fall with Hanako Hirose
“One hundred meters...and touch down!” Cheers erupt as Hanako Hirose grabs a tag from the hundred-meter mark deep below the turqu...
Features
Home in the Mountains
Japan’s most accomplished “yama girl” is sharing her love of the outdoors to help inspire and empower marginalized children ...
People
For the Sake of Sake
In the traditionally male-dominated industry of sake (rice wine), Ayaka Ito is making a difference. The 31-year-old Ito owns BeSh...
People
Sado Island’s Creative Soul: Johnny Wales
Walking through a damp, faint trail along a rice paddy, long curly grey locks peak out around the corner of a room where stacks o...
Features
Urban Taiheiki
This story is about an era where people forgot history and classical literature was lost; it’s a crazy story of a lone photographer.
Craft Beer
Antenna America Expands its Range
Yokohama Station, the central hub of Japan’s second largest city, isn’t the trendiest station. But this spring, Antenna America will help change that.