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Japanese ski resort is tense, as Australians flex financial muscle

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Niseko is a resort on the Japanese north island of Hokkaido which enjoys exceptional snowfall every winter. It's become a popular destination for Australian skiers, and Australian entrepreneurs are seizing golden opportunities.

As one of them put it:

"Niseko has a resource that is the equivalent of oil; that's snow. There is less and less snow in the world but here we get 14 metres a year and there is always fresh powder."

The pressure to build accommodation and open new businesses is stressing the resort, with some concern that Japanese values and culture are being compromised.

This report by Deborah Cameron from The Age, Melbourne.

Anyone been to Niseko?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
I've been to Niseko. The comment re: snow is 100% correct. It's also seriously cold. The wind whips across the island of Hokkaido from Siberia .... the sea is so cold that the crabs have evolved a layer of hair to keep them warm.

I notices the other week in some magazine or other (Fall Line maybe?) an advert for apartments in Niseko at rather attractively affordable prices (in relative terms, of course).
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