TOKYO -- On a February weekday, Robert Jagger, a ski buff from Australia, is poised at the top of a slope marked for advanced skiers at Geto in northern Honshu, Japan's main island.
"Wow, this is going to be a fantastic tree run," the 49-year-old says, looking over the surface of the powder. He puts on his goggles and glides down into a snow-carpeted beech forest.
