On a Friday morning at APA Hotel and Resort, I giddily watch snowflakes fall from the sky while enjoying my ... It’s about ...

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.

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--The city of Sapporo’s hopes of hosting the Winter Olympics in 2038 were dashed ... given his huge popularity in Hokkaido. But since autumn 2022, Suzuki has placed greater distance ...

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, 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 ...

(Kyodo News via AP) A snow sculpture of Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is covered with snow at the Sapporo Snow Festival, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Kyodo News via AP) ...

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 ...

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 ...