{"id":452672,"date":"2026-02-02T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:27:09","slug":"australian-woman-dies-at-ski-resort-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452672\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian woman dies at ski resort in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeffn Australian woman has died after an accident at a ski resort in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Japan\">Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The operators of Tsugaike Mountain Resort, Tsugaike Gondola Lift Co, confirmed the death of a customer after the Friday incident on its web page.<\/p>\n<p>The resort said the 22-year-old woman was left hanging in midair after trying to get off a chair lift, when a buckle on her outfit caught onto the chair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c71b47df-99e6-4db8-b96f-857c779607f7.png\"   alt=\"Current conditions at Tsugaike Mountain resort.\"\/>A woman has died in an accident at Tsugaike Mountain Resort, Japan. (tsugaike mountain resort)<\/p>\n<p>Some reports said the woman suffered a heart attack before being taken to hospita\ufeffl, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to express our deepest condolences to the bereaved family and pray for the repose of their souls,&#8221; company chief executive and president Tsuneo Kubo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to fully cooperate with the police and related agencies in their investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kubo said staff would also look into strengthening the resort&#8217;s safety management in an effort to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>9news.com.au has contacted The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for comment.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeffn Australian woman has died after an accident at a ski resort in Japan. The operators of Tsugaike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-452672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}