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We are experiencing a few issues regarding the new functionality.... currently fixing them and things should be clear by the end of the day, but we wanted to let you know about these things:
- currently photos in the main Photos section are not displaying properly
- some text on the video site is not appearing correctly
We'll update this page as necessary.
Thanks, please bear with us
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We have a totally separate server for snowjapan.tv - on a totally different network connection - and so there is no connection between the two.
So there are absolutely no bandwidth or security issues between the main SnowJapan site, the Forums and the video site.
We shall see about bandwidth - of course how much bandwidth the site eats up is going to depend on how many people use the site and how many videos go up there. Some unknowns for us as well right now, but we're going to do what we can to adjust and grow as necessary.
We have also tripled our bandwidth for the main sj/forums site, so we think we are ready for the season.
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Yes you'll need to sign up to the tv site if you want to view lots of videos or upload. It's really extremely simple:
http://www.snowjapan.tv/signup.php
Guests on that site have a limited time before exceeding a usage limit. If you sign up and login you'll get far more.
We'll be adjusting these settings as we see how things go with it all.
We'll also be adding more "help" info today and in the coming week.....
Thanks!
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Good morning.
Just want to post and let everyone know that while the new site is pretty much up there, there are still things to do in intergrating it all --- so you may still come across few stray links and errors. Please bear with us as we clear these issues up.
nce we are ready with it all we'll post and then ask for "bug reports"!
Thank you.
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Comments are welcome, please post them in this main thread:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/240812#Post240812
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Welcome to Snow Japan 07/08!
We have made a lot of changes to SnowJapan this season - far more than we have ever done before in an effort to really bring the site up to date and take some big steps forward. As well as a completely new site design and navigation for the site, there are a number of new sections, a lot of updates to existing functionality and also a completely new website for videos.
Before we go into details of the updates, we'd just like to say a sincere thank you to the people who helped us out over the last 5 or 6 months. We started work on all this lot in early May and since that time a number of friends and members have given us valuable feedback and comments about what we were doing. We really do appreciate it.
Anyway, below are the main updates & changes that have been made to Snow Japan:
NEW SITE DESIGN:
The site has a totally new design. We liked the previous design and while the new one has similiarities it is actually totally new and built from scratch - better organised, lighter, cleaner and we hope better looking as well. Every page of the site has been updated into the new look, so check any page of the SnowJapan site pages to see it. Go to any page of the site to check it out.
NEW INDEX PAGE:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/index.php
There is a new "index" page to the site - the one most people see on their first visit to the site.
DETAILED TOWN MAPS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/index.html
We have created 23 new detailed Town Maps for many of the main snow resort towns in Japan. These new town maps are based on official maps of the areas and so are quite accurate. Please note that additions to our maps will be made during the month of November and beyond to maximise their usefulness. Just 2 samples of the maps:
Yuzawa:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa/yuzawa.html
Shiga Kogen central area:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/shiga-kogen-maruike/maruike.html
MYOKO NOW DAILY REPORTS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/myoko-now.php
This season sees the addition of a new daily reports section, bringing you daily reports from the Myoko region of Niigata Prefecture.
PHOTO UPLOADING:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_gallery_image_uploader.php
We have modified the Photos uploading page so that you can now upload up to 5 photos at the same time.
PHOTO QUALITY:
We have modified the photo mechanism to increase the quality of the photos that you upload. Photos that you upload from now will display at exactly the same quality that you upload them at. The "snowjapan stamp" will also be much smaller and less intrusive than previously and will added at regular intervals rather than instantly on upload.
PHOTO SECURITY:
We have taken a few steps to prevent people from "stealing" your photos. These steps are by no means perfect, but we hope are an improvement. First of all if people right click on a photo they will be unable to "save" the image. (If you wish to see the URL of the photo, click on the link beneath the photo for that to appear and copy from there). We have also made it so that other websites cannot display photos hosted on SnowJapan - if they try to, a snowjapan logo rather than the image will display. Of course you can still link photos in to threads on these forums as usual. If you have a website and want certain images from SnowJapan to appear on your website, please let us know.
One other thing we would like to make clear - photos that you upload remain yours and you are able to delete them at any time. Apart from hosting them on our server, we will not use your photos for any purpose whatsoever.
PHOTO GALLERIES:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/reader-photo-galleries.php
We have created a new "Photo Galleries" section where all of the user-defined photo galleries that members create are listed and sortable.
SNOWJAPAN.TV:
This season we wanted to do something with videos and we eventually decided to create a new site just for videos called snowjapan.tv .
This is a very new and exciting project for us. We are confident that the site will be fine from the beginning, but it is new and quite complex and so at the beginning there might be some issues that we need to deal with. Please bear with us as this part of the site grows. Any videos that you upload to the site will remain yours and you can delete them at any time. The only initial guidelines we have are that the videos be relevant to the theme of "SnowJapan" and also no advertising videos please.
You can also bring the videos into these forums. On each video on the site on the right hand side you will see the code needed to embed them into the forums. The code to use is basically [snowjapantv] videocode [/snowjapantv]
[All videos that were previously on the videos section of SnowJapan have been uploaded to this site under the name "SnowJapanTV". If you are the owner of one of those videos and wish for us to delete it, please contact us].
RESORT RANKINGS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resort-rankings.php
This season sees the launch of a totally new section "Resort Rankings" that lets you vote for any resort in Japan on 5 categories:
- General
- Snow Conditions
- Courses/Terrain
- Lift System
- Apres Ski
This new system allows you to do a detailed searches of the ranking data... on prefecture, any of the categories, number of votes, etc. as well as sort the information to try and make use of it.
You can also view the rankings by prefecture, for example:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Nagano
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Niigata
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Hokkaido
This is new and so there are not that many votes yet. As more and more votes are cast, this section will become more useful to everyone so please go there and vote for the resorts you have been to. You can vote on each resort page, or on this main voting page:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/japan-snow-resort-vote.php
Ranking information is now shown on each resort page as well as on the Resort Review listings within the site.
START HERE:
http://www.snowjapan.com/start-here.html
This new page is linked to from every page of the site and we hope it will give people a simple introduction to the site and where all the information is. We plan to update and modify this page as needed.
NEW GENERAL & TRAVEL INFO SECTIONS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/general/index.html
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/travel/index.html
The General Info and Travel sections have had an overhaul with some re-writing and a totally new look and structure. We plan to add more information to these sections in the coming weeks.
OTHER UPDATES:
As every page of the site has been changed (brought into the new design), many pages have seen changes and updates to information. If you take a look around the site - especially the main sections and index pages - you will notice quite a lot of changes.
SITE MAP:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/about/site-map.html
We have created a new site map that shows most of the main pages of the site.
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PLEASE NOTE:
Once we have taken a bit of a rest, there will be some further changes coming to the site including:
- updated resort data for the new season;
- links from resort listings to the relevant new maps in the Maps section;
- a few changes to the Forums;
- daily weather forecasts and snow depth information, starting later in November.
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As well as some of the new functionality being quite complex, we have made a lot of changes to literally thousands of pages. As such, there is a chance of some remaining bugs now that the new things have gone live and been integrated into the site. Over the next few days and beyond we will be checking the new systems and doing what we can to fix any problems that are found. If you do find any errors, or pages that do not seem to have been converted to the new site, please let us know by contacting us directly at editor@snowjapan.com. Thank you.
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Anyway we hope tha you will enjoy using all of the new content and find it to be really useful - and fun.
Hope everyone has a great season.
Thanks
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Welcome to Snow Japan 07/08!
We have made a lot of changes to SnowJapan this season - far more than we have ever done before in an effort to really bring the site up to date and take some big steps forward. As well as a completely new site design and navigation for the site, there are a number of new sections, a lot of updates to existing functionality and also a completely new website for videos.
Before we go into details of the updates, we'd just like to say a sincere thank you to the people who helped us out over the last 5 or 6 months. We started work on all this lot in early May and since that time a number of friends and members have given us valuable feedback and comments about what we were doing. We really do appreciate it.
Anyway, below are the main updates & changes that have been made to Snow Japan:
NEW SITE DESIGN:
The site has a totally new design. We liked the previous design and while the new one has similiarities it is actually totally new and built from scratch - better organised, lighter, cleaner and we hope better looking as well. Every page of the site has been updated into the new look, so check any page of the SnowJapan site pages to see it. Go to any page of the site to check it out.
NEW INDEX PAGE:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/index.php
There is a new "index" page to the site - the one most people see on their first visit to the site.
DETAILED TOWN MAPS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/index.html
We have created 23 new detailed Town Maps for many of the main snow resort towns in Japan. These new town maps are based on official maps of the areas and so are quite accurate. Please note that additions to our maps will be made during the month of November and beyond to maximise their usefulness. Just 2 samples of the maps:
Yuzawa:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa/yuzawa.html
Shiga Kogen central area:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/shiga-kogen-maruike/maruike.html
MYOKO NOW DAILY REPORTS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/myoko-now.php
This season sees the addition of a new daily reports section, bringing you daily reports from the Myoko region of Niigata Prefecture.
PHOTO UPLOADING:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/photo_gallery_image_uploader.php
We have modified the Photos uploading page so that you can now upload up to 5 photos at the same time.
PHOTO QUALITY:
We have modified the photo mechanism to increase the quality of the photos that you upload. Photos that you upload from now will display at exactly the same quality that you upload them at. The "snowjapan stamp" will also be much smaller and less intrusive than previously and will added at regular intervals rather than instantly on upload.
PHOTO SECURITY:
We have taken a few steps to prevent people from "stealing" your photos. These steps are by no means perfect, but we hope are an improvement. First of all if people right click on a photo they will be unable to "save" the image. (If you wish to see the URL of the photo, click on the link beneath the photo for that to appear and copy from there). We have also made it so that other websites cannot display photos hosted on SnowJapan - if they try to, a snowjapan logo rather than the image will display. Of course you can still link photos in to threads on these forums as usual. If you have a website and want certain images from SnowJapan to appear on your website, please let us know.
One other thing we would like to make clear - photos that you upload remain yours and you are able to delete them at any time. Apart from hosting them on our server, we will not use your photos for any purpose whatsoever.
PHOTO GALLERIES:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/insider/reader-photo-galleries.php
We have created a new "Photo Galleries" section where all of the user-defined photo galleries that members create are listed and sortable.
SNOWJAPAN.TV:
This season we wanted to do something with videos and we eventually decided to create a new site just for videos called snowjapan.tv .
This is a very new and exciting project for us. We are confident that the site will be fine from the beginning, but it is new and quite complex and so at the beginning there might be some issues that we need to deal with. Please bear with us as this part of the site grows. Any videos that you upload to the site will remain yours and you can delete them at any time. The only initial guidelines we have are that the videos be relevant to the theme of "SnowJapan" and also no advertising videos please.
You can also bring the videos into these forums. On each video on the site on the right hand side you will see the code needed to embed them into the forums. The code to use is basically [snowjapantv] videocode [/snowjapantv]
[All videos that were previously on the videos section of SnowJapan have been uploaded to this site under the name "SnowJapanTV". If you are the owner of one of those videos and wish for us to delete it, please contact us].
RESORT RANKINGS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resort-rankings.php
This season sees the launch of a totally new section "Resort Rankings" that lets you vote for any resort in Japan on 5 categories:
- General
- Snow Conditions
- Courses/Terrain
- Lift System
- Apres Ski
This new system allows you to do a detailed searches of the ranking data... on prefecture, any of the categories, number of votes, etc. as well as sort the information to try and make use of it.
You can also view the rankings by prefecture, for example:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Nagano
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Niigata
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Hokkaido
This is new and so there are not that many votes yet. As more and more votes are cast, this section will become more useful to everyone so please go there and vote for the resorts you have been to. You can vote on each resort page, or on this main voting page:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/japan-snow-resort-vote.php
Ranking information is now shown on each resort page as well as on the Resort Review listings within the site.
START HERE:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/start-here.html
This new page is linked to from every page of the site and we hope it will give people a simple introduction to the site and where all the information is. We plan to update and modify this page as needed.
NEW GENERAL & TRAVEL INFO SECTIONS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/general/index.html
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/travel/index.html
The General Info and Travel sections have had an overhaul with some re-writing and a totally new look and structure. We plan to add more information to these sections in the coming weeks.
OTHER UPDATES:
As every page of the site has been changed (brought into the new design), many pages have seen changes and updates to information. If you take a look around the site - especially the main sections and index pages - you will notice quite a lot of changes.
SITE MAP:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/about/site-map.html
We have created a new site map that shows most of the main pages of the site.
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PLEASE NOTE:
Once we have taken a bit of a rest, there will be some further changes coming to the site including:
- updated resort data for the new season;
- links from resort listings to the relevant new maps in the Maps section;
- additions to the new Town Maps;
- a few changes to the Forums;
- daily weather forecasts and snow depth information, starting later in November.
-------------------------------------------------
As well as some of the new functionality being quite complex, we have made a lot of changes to literally thousands of pages. As such, there is a chance of some remaining bugs now that the new things have gone live and been integrated into the site. Over the next few days and beyond we will be checking the new systems and doing what we can to fix any problems that are found. If you do find any errors, or pages that do not seem to have been converted to the new site, please let us know by contacting us directly at editor@snowjapan.com. Thank you.
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Anyway we hope tha you will enjoy using all of the new content and find it to be really useful - and fun.
Hope everyone has a great season.
Thanks
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DETAILED TOWN MAPS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/index.html
We have created 23 new detailed Town Maps for many of the main snow resort towns in Japan. These new town maps are based on official maps of the areas and so are quite accurate. Please note that additions to our maps will be made during the month of November and beyond to maximise their usefulness.
Niseko Region:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/niseko/niseko.html
Niseko Hirafu:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/niseko-hirafu/niseko-hirafu.html
Niseko Higashiyama:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/niseko-higashiyama/niseko-higashiyama.html
Niseko Annupuri:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/niseko-annupuri/niseko-annupuri.html
Furano:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/furano/furano.html
Appi Kogen:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/appi-kogen/appi-kogen.html
Yamagata Zao:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yamagata-zao/yamagata-zao.html
Yuzawa Region:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa/yuzawa.html
Yuzawa Center:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa-center/yuzawa-town.html
Yuzawa Iwappara:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/yuzawa-iwappara/yuzawa-iwappara.html
Ishiuchi:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/ishiuchi/ishiuchi.html
Naeba & Kagura Region:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/naeba/naeba.html
Naeba Village:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/naeba-village/naeba-village.html
Myoko:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/myoko/myoko.html
Myoko Akakura:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/myoko-akakura/myoko-akakura.html
Minakami:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/minakami/minakami.html
Hakuba Region:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/hakuba/hakuba.html
Hakuba Village:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/hakuba-village/hakuba-village.html
Otari Village:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/hakuba-otari/hakuba-otari.html
Shiga Kogen:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/shiga-kogen/shiga-kogen.html
Shiga Kogen Maruike:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/shiga-kogen-maruike/maruike.html
Nozawa Onsen:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/nozawa-onsen/nozawa-onsen.html
Sugadaira:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/sugadaira/sugadaira.html
News on other updates can be found here:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/240797#Post240797
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SNOWJAPAN.TV:
This season we wanted to do something with videos and we eventually decided to create a new site just for videos called snowjapan.tv .
This is a very new and exciting project for us. We are confident that the site will be fine from the beginning, but it is new and quite complex and so especially at the beginning there might be some issues that we need to deal with. Please bear with us as this part of the site grows.
Any videos that you upload to the site will remain yours and you can delete them at any time. The only initial guidelines we have are that the videos be relevant to the theme of "SnowJapan" and also no advertising videos please.
You can also embed the videos into the threads on these forums. On each video on the site on the right hand side you will see the code needed to embed them into the forums. The code to use is basically [snowjapantv] videocode [/snowjapantv]
Here is a sample:
[All videos that were previously on the videos section of SnowJapan have been uploaded to this site under the name "SnowJapanTV". If you are the owner of one of those videos and wish for us to delete it, please contact us].
Hope to see lots of new video clips online this season:
News on other updates can be found here:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/240797#Post240797
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RESORT RANKINGS:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resort-rankings.php
This season sees the launch of a totally new section "Resort Rankings" that lets you vote for any resort in Japan on 5 categories:
- General
- Snow Conditions
- Courses/Terrain
- Lift System
- Apres Ski
This new system allows you to perform detailed searches of the ranking data... on any prefecture, any of the categories, the number of votes for each data category, etc. as well as sort the information in a number of ways to try and make use of it.
You can also view the rankings by prefecture, for example:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Nagano
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Niigata
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/ski-resort-ratings.php?Prefecture=Hokkaido
As this is a new section, there are not that many votes yet. As more and more votes are cast, this section will become more useful to everyone --- so please go there and vote for the resorts you have been to. You can vote on each resort page, or on this main voting page:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/japan-snow-resort-vote.php
Ranking information is now also displayed on each resort page as well as on the Resort Review listings within the site.
News on other updates can be found here:
http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/240797#Post240797
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Thank you for the comments and good luck with everything.
(I moved the thread to this forum when I initially saw it, by the way).
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Hello and welcome.
Here's some experiences:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-snowboard-instructing-in-japan.html
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/features-gala-experience.html
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/setting-journals-29.html
And some places to possibly contact:
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/jobs-available/index.html
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Before the youtube video code (in this case, fgg2tpUVbXQ), put
After that code, put
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I think so, we've got nothing to do with this!
Anyway, back to work...
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"go ahead snowjapan..."
Who do you mean there?
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TB, please.... that is going too far.
On reflection, don't you think so?
Can you please try to hold back comments like that on these Forums.
Thanks.
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Will speak with someone over there soon tsondaboy.
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Hi tsondaboy, thanks for posting - we'll be updating the now page with that soon.
The Romance lift is, I am fairly sure, a pair lift not a quad.
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We're certainly open to idea.
Let the ideas begin!!
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No problems, skidaisuki - I didn't take it like that
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Absolutely not.
They are totally 100% ad free and clean code.
Surely you know us better than to flood you with 3rd party ads and other nasty things)?
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We do our best with reporting Japan
Actually, we (more specifically SJ#1) does a fair bit of work with people and organisations overseas to try and bring Japan more into the spotlight. (Hope you don't mind!). He'd be able to tell you more but responses vary - from "not interested" to "wow".
For the main part we'll just keep on doing what we are doing to make SnowJapan as good as possible to bring it to the world in that way.
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Glad you found it me jane.
There's going to be a bit of a reorganisation of things coming soon that will hopefully make things easier to find.
Update news - ongoing issues
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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Fixed the text not appearing on the snowjapan.tv pages:
http://www.snowjapan.tv/video.php?next=watch