Royce’ Cacao and Chocolate Town is another must-see destination ... which was sparsely populated and considered Japan’s “next ...

Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city of Otaru serves as the backdrop of a popular 1995 romance blockbuster that continues to bring starry-eyed travelers to the region every ...

TASS/. The representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese officials may have conducted unofficial consultations to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, the Kyodo ...

SAPPORO -- Concerns are growing over whether the upcoming Sapporo Snow Festival, an annual winter tradition for Hokkaido's capital city, will go ahead as scheduled due to a spell of unusually warm ...

SAPPORO--Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto announced on Dec. 19 that the city would suspend its bid to host the Winter Olympics as it will be unlikely to host the Games for the next 18 years.

The 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo featured five sports: biathlon, curling, ice hockey, skating (speed skating, figure skating and short track) and skiing (Alpine, cross-country, freestyle ...

SAPPORO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 6: Japanese Yukio Kasaya soars in the air during the 70m ski jumping competition 06 February 1972 in Sapporo (Japan) at the Winter Olympic Games. Kasaya won the gold ...

The torch relay for the Olympic Council of Asia’s 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017 took place on Monday, February 6. It was also the first day of the Sapporo Snow Festival, a world-famous ...

Ski jumper Noriaki Kasai continued rewriting the records books at the age of 52, extending his own Guinness World Record for the most individual World Cup appearances to 579 on Feb. 16.

That figure doesn’t include those making day trips from Sapporo, Hokkaido’s capital ... In May last year, Fujikawaguchiko, a small town at the base of Mount Fuji, had to erect a large black ...