That was the outcome in Nagano four years ago, when Langen and Zimmerman claimed the bronze.
With its castle and history, Nagoya is a more accessible tourist attraction than mountainous Nagano.
Nozawa Onsen, in Nagano prefecture, is one of the oldest and most popular hot springs in Japan.
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Yoko's mother's family had to evacuate from Tokyo to Nagano, in central Japan, to avoid intensifying American air raids.
Visit the ski resort of Shiga Kogen 18 miles northeast of Nagano city, where Tsutsumi has three Prince hotels.
That was a year after Nagano won the bidding war by four votes.
There was no message and no return address, though the parcel was reportedly sent from the north-western city of Nagano.
The NHL began sending its players to the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, and continued through the 2010 Vancouver Games.
One of a series of such projects on hold since 1982 because of the outlandish cost, the Nagano line was resurrected by the Olympics.
The month at Yamaichi typically began with a sales list from head office, says Toshiyuki Suzuki, now Merrill's Nagano branch manager.
Nagano also acknowledged the fact that China already has many PS Vita and PS3 users, along with many developers with great potential.
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The Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, got the puck flying in February.
To see the potential for disappointment, one need only look at the neighbouring prefecture of Nagano, which hosted the winter Olympics in 1998.
As for the Russians, their 1-0 quarter-final win over the Czechs was another stale and tepid affair, like the 1998 final in Nagano.
Shinko of Nagano and Johnson Matthey Electronics of Minneapolis, Minnesota are selling a rival style of package that replaces pins with balls of metal.
Salt Lake City (Winter Games, 2002) was the first to be uncovered, followed by Sydney (Olympics, 2000) and then Nagano, Japan (Winter Games, 1998).
Mr Tanaka's administration in Nagano has become so transparent that he even sits behind glass walls, through which voters can see their governor at work.
Some International Olympic Committee (IOC) members got lots more from Nagano.
In Nagano, Mr Tanaka won with the support of citizens' groups that opposed a dam the construction ministry wanted built against the wishes of local residents.
Nagano hosted the Winter Olympics in 1998 and a point of pride for Mr. Usui is that he skied a course used for the giant slalom.
He won the World Cup crown three times in four years from 1997-98 to 2000-01 and claimed two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Nagano residents may be in for some nasty financial surprises.
He went right to work wooing Olympics czar Juan Antonio Samaranch, who awarded Tsutsumi Japan's first Gold Olympic Order in May 1991 and Nagano the Olympics one month later.
On February 22nd, in Nagano itself, the mayor of Salt Lake City will formally invite the Winter Olympic circus to pitch its tent in his city in four years' time.
Owner of the Seibu Lions pro baseball team, he set his sights on bringing the Olympic Winter Games to Nagano a decade ago, as honorary chairman of the Nagano Bidding Committee.
This included entertainment by geisha, flights in police helicopters, sidetrips to Kyoto (250 km from Nagano) and shopping in Tokyo, where they and their friends were offered cam eras and compact-disc players.
Though Yasuo Tanaka, the controversial governor of Nagano prefecture, broke from tradition by opening up press events to all journalists and the public after his election in 2001, few others have followed suit.
The brother of Olympic bronze-medal winning 800m runner Mike Boit, the skiing Kenyan made his debut at the Nagano Games in 1998, where he finished 92nd and last in the 10k cross country event.
He looks at the growth of snowboarding over the past ten years and its inclusion as an Olympic event in Nagano, Japan, four years ago as a sign that it's ready for prime time.
Whereas 1994 had been an epic duel, Hackl dominated Nagano in 1998 where he won by more than half-a-second and became the first man to record the best time in all four runs at the Olympics.
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