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While the country is having a banner ski season, exceptionally heavy snowfall has created challenges for resort workers.

It shortened. In the early part of the season, that snowfall was from La Niña, then it petered out,” says Professor Tomonori Sato, a meteorological researcher from Hokkaido University.