By KAEDE SANO/ Staff Writer
February 3, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Heavy machinery and scaffolding remain in place around snow sculptures being built for the festival at Odori Park in Sapporo’s Chuo Ward on Jan. 19. (Kaede Sano)
SAPPORO--The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of the nation’s biggest winter events, is to be held online for the second straight year due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Hokkaido after the turn of the year, the executive committee announced. [Read More]
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