Word: korakuen
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop a huge ski jump in balmy Tokyo's Korakuen stadium. The Transportation Ministry and a local newspaper, which sponsored the meet and paid for the snow, lost only 959,950 yen ($2,667) on the event...