Mike Buck, Former Radio Host and Honolulu City Planner for CORE, inspires us with the crucial work that he’s done throughout his career to help the homeless in Hawaii. Marlowe Lai, Ukulele ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city ... From child's play to a globally recognized event The Sapporo Snow Festival began as child’s play, literally.

SAPPORO -- Concerns are growing over whether the upcoming Sapporo Snow Festival, an annual winter tradition for Hokkaido's ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular winter events, opened here on Feb. 4, overcoming what had been a record low snowfall this season. About 140 snow statues are ...

Since then, the event has developed into a large popular seasonal festival held every winter in Sapporo. According to the organizers, the major Hokkaido tourist attraction usually attracts more than 2 ...

We get it: when winter rolls around ... skating rink and zip-lining experience. Hokkaido’s port city of Otaru hosts an annual snow festival every February, and it sure is a showstopper.

which brings ice sculptors from around the world to the city of Sapporo on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s four main islands, began in 1950. The COVID-19 pandemic put the festival on ice ...

Sapporo, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, comes alive. For one week every February, the city, which hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, embraces the cold with the Sapporo Snow Festival ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- Visits to Japan's northernmost main island, Hokkaido, by overseas travelers are showing signs of recovery ahead of the opening of the Sapporo Snow Festival on Saturday ...

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...