{"id":76219,"date":"2026-02-04T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/04\/australian-man-dies-skiing-in-japan-niseko"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:12:55","slug":"australian-man-dies-skiing-in-japan-days-after-queensland-snowboarder-killed-in-ski-lift-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76219","title":{"rendered":"Australian man dies skiing in Japan days after Queensland snowboarder killed in ski lift accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 27-year-old died after reportedly collapsing while skiing with friends near a Niseko ski resort<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 27-year-old Melbourne man has died at a ski resort in Japan, days after the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/03\/australian-woman-died-japan-ski-lift-brooke-day-tributes\">Queensland snowboarder Brooke Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The man collapsed and suffered a heart attack while skiing with six others in Niseko, Hokkaido, on Monday, according to a spokesperson for a local ski lodge who asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/04\/australian-man-dies-skiing-in-japan-niseko\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 27-year-old died after reportedly collapsing while skiing with friends near a Niseko ski resortGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 27-year-old Melbourne man has died at a ski resort in Japan, days after the death of Queensl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76219\/revisions\/76228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}