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Sapporo Snow Festival begins as quake recovery continues
Published on 04/02/2019
» SAPPORO: The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's most celebrated winter events, officially opened on Monday in the Hokkaido capital, with locals' minds still on the massive earthquake that shook the nation's northernmost main island five months earlier.
Japan popular sleeper train makes last run to Sapporo
Published on 22/03/2016
» SAPPORO — East Japan Railway Co's flagship sleeper train Cassiopeia completed its last run from Tokyo to Sapporo on Sunday, marking a near end to its regular service ahead of the opening later this month of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line.
Local food specialties boost Japan tourism
Published on 02/09/2015
» TOKYO — From dumplings to fried noodles, more and more municipalities in Japan are promoting specialty dishes as a way to attract tourists and revitalise their economies.
Tourists flock to Japan's new industrial heritage sites
Published on 12/07/2015
» FUKUOKA — Many tourists visited the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" on the first Saturday after the sites were added to the Unesco World Cultural Heritage list.