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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.
Snowboarding
White Gold: Shaun White Interview
Holding someone’s Olympic gold medal for the first time can be like holding their baby; it’s shiny and beautiful, but it’s a bit unsettling, and you don’t want to drop it, so you smile and hand it back after a few moments.
People
Remembering Jake Burton
This article was originally published in Spring 2010. Outdoor Japan contributor Neil Hartmann sits down with Jake Burton in Ni...
Travel
Globe Spinning
When I was a kid, I was the master of procrastination. I could sit in my room and entertain myself for hours to avoid doing homew...
People
The Hokkaido Bush Pig Meets the Australian Horse...
Like many Hokkaido residents, Gregory Stewart is an avid sportsman who enjoys snowboarding, telemark and cross country skiing, hi...
Trail Running
Answering the Call of the Trail
Ten years ago, trail running was virtually unknown in Japan but, in the last few years, it has become one of the country’s hottes...
Kansai
Living Legends
There is an area at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula known as “Kumano” where you can wander through villages, listen to loca...
People
Homeland Insecurity
After six productive years in Japan, Rob Volansky made the reluctantly inevitable move back to the States. That was more than a y...
People
Interview with Mick Fanning
There are many things I dreamed I would be doing on the night I signed my wedding papers. French Champagne, Five-star hotels, moo...