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New aquarium opening in Sapporo

Photo taken on June 29, 2023, shows some of the world's smallest species of penguin, the fairy penguin, at a new aquarium in Sapporo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, during a press preview held ahead of its July 20 opening.

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Sheep-shaped clay bells manufactured in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Sheep-shaped clay bells are manufactured at a kiln in Hokkaido Shrine in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 22, 2014. Some 6,000 bells will be prepared by the end of the year, as 2015 falls on the Year of the Sheep.

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Quake drill conducted at Tomari nuclear plant in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Electric Power Co. conducts a drill at its Tomari nuclear power plant in Tomari village, Hokkaido, on Dec. 16, 2014, on the assumption that a powerful earthquake hits the region. Some 330 people took part in the exercise.

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Buddhist priest recalls tragedy of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

SAPPORO, Japan - Masayoshi Asahi, a Buddhist priest in Akkeshi, eastern Hokkaido, shown in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014, remembers chanting sutras for some 2,800 victims of the Imperial Japanese Army's freighter Nichiren Maru, sunk by a U.S. submarine attack off the town in March 1944 during World War II.

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Cape looking out Pacific site of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

SAPPORO, Japan - A young couple stands on a lookout platform on Aug. 9, 2014, at Cape Aikappu in Akkeshi, eastern Hokkaido, overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the Imperial Japanese Army's freighter Nichiren Maru was sunk by a U.S. submarine attack in March 1944 during World War II, killing some 2,800 people aboard.

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Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo enters final day

SAPPORO, Japan - A group of dancers participates in a performance on the last day of the 23rd Yosakoi Soran dance festival in Sapporo on June 8, 2014. Around 27,000 people from some 270 groups took part in the five-day festival this year.

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Common seals in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows salmon caught at a port in Cape Erimo in Hokkaido on Aug. 28, 2013. Some of the fish have bites apparently made by common seals.

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Charred train in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Personnel associated with Hokkaido Railway Co. probe train cars gutted by a fire in the village of Shimukappu, Hokkaido, on May 29, 2011. The express train made an emergency stop in the middle of a 685-meter tunnel on the JR Sekisho Line on May 27 due to the fire. Around 240 on board escaped the scene on foot, with some 30 of them injured after inhaling smoke or suffering burns.

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3 held for drug smuggling

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows the Singaporean-registered freighter Sun Honor docked in Muroran, Hokkaido, on Dec. 2, 2010. Police said on Dec. 6 they have arrested two Chinese crew members of the ship and a Japanese man on suspicion of smuggling some 5 kilograms of illegal stimulants into Japan.

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F's beat Eagles in PLCS

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters' players celebrate their 3-1 victory over the Rakuten Eagles in Game 2 of the Pacific League Climax Series second stage at Sapporo Some on Oct. 22, 2009. The Fighters, who were given a one-win advantage in the series for finishing the regular season in first place, improved to 3-0 and can book a spot in the Japan Series with a win on Oct. 23.

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Takahashi's clutch single gives F's 3-0 lead in PLCS

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters' Shinji Takahashi hits a tiebreaking two-run single off ace Hisashi Iwakuma with two outs in the seventh inning as the Fighters went on to beat the Rakuten Eagles 3-1 in Game 2 of the Pacific League Climax Series second stage at Sapporo Some on Oct. 22, 2009.

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Girl badly injured by falling bookshelves at Sapporo store

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows books scattered at a second-hand bookstore on Oct. 13, 2009, in Sapporo, where a 10-year-old girl was knocked unconscious and her 14-year-old sister also injured when some bookshelves collapsed on them.

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Girl badly injured by falling bookshelves at Sapporo store

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows books scattered at a second-hand bookstore on Oct. 13, 2009, in Sapporo, where a 10-year-old girl was knocked unconscious and her 14-year-old sister also injured when some bookshelves collapsed on them.

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Girl badly injured by falling bookshelves at Sapporo store

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 13, 2009, shows a second-hand bookstore in Sapporo, where a 10-year-old girl was knocked unconscious and her 14-year-old sister also injured when some bookshelves collapsed on them.

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10,000 sardines attract visitors in Hokkaido aquarium

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors look at some of the 10,000 sardines in a tank at the Noboribetsu Marine Park NIXE on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2009. Two sharks and three rays live together with the sardines in the tank that opened in July.

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33,000 people take part in Yosakoi-Soran Festival in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Participants in the 18th Yosakoi-Soran Festival dance in Odori Park in Sappporo, Hokkaido on June 10. About 33,000 participants in 316 teams, including some from Taiwan, will compete in dance performances during the five-day festival through June 14 at 25 sites in the city.

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'Lilac Festival' begins in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Senior high school students watch lilac flowers at Odori Park in central Sapporo on May 20 as the ''Lilac Festival'' starts for the five-day run. About 400,000 people are expected to visit the festival to view some 400 lilac trees in full bloom.

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Investigators examine hole on golf course in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Investigators on April 3 examine a hole into which a 38-year-old woman from Sapporo fell and died the previous day while playing golf with her husband and their children at the Le Petaw Golf Club in Abira in Hokkaido, some 20 kilometers from New Chitose Airport.

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Ice church in Hokkaido draws winter lovebirds

SAPPORO, Japan - Salaried worker Hideyuki Osanai (L) and nurse Momoko Tsuta walk arm in arm down the aisle during their wedding ceremony Feb. 11 in a church made of ice including its dome and pillars at the resort facilities complex Alpha Resort Tomamu in the village of Shimukappu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido. As the mercury went down to 9C below zero in the ice church, Osanai who came from Nagoya, 1,000 kilometers southwest of Hokkaido, said, ''Although it was cold, this ceremony will be a timeless memory.'' The resort complex operator said some 40 couples held wedding ceremonies this year.

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60th snow festival starts in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors look at a snow sculpture of Beijing Olympic gold medalist Kosuke Kitajima (C) at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido on Feb. 5 as the 60th annual snow festival started the same day at three sites, including the park. Some 290 ice and snow sculptures are on display through Feb. 11.

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60th snow festival starts in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - A snow sculpture of popular Japanese teen golfer Ryo Ishikawa is on display at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido on Feb. 5 as the 60th annual snow festival started the same day at three sites, including the park. Some 290 ice and snow sculptures are on display through Feb. 11.

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60th snow festival starts in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors look at a snow sculpture of wildlife found in Hokkaido on Feb. 5 as the 60th annual snow festival started the same day in Sapporo. Some 290 ice and snow sculptures are on display at three sites, including the main venue at Odori Park through Feb. 11.

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60th snow festival starts in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors look at a snow sculpture of wildlife found in Hokkaido on Feb. 5 as the 60th annual snow festival started the same day in Sapporo. Some 290 ice and snow sculptures are on display at three sites, including the main venue at Odori Park through Feb. 11.

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Season's 1st snow observed in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Pedestrians walk along a sidewalk in central Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Nov. 4 amid snow as some parts of Japan's northern most prefecture observed its first snowfall of the season. The snowfall in Sapporo came eight days later than the average year and two days later than last year.

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Kitty Hawk makes port call at Muroran for 5-day visit

SAPPORO, Japan - The Japan-based U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and the U.S. destroyer Fitzgerald dock at the civilian port of Muroran in southern Hokkaido on Oct. 26 for a five-day visit. Some Japanese military experts suspect that Washington is preparing to use civilian ports in Japan in the event of emergencies in East Asia.

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Kitty Hawk makes port call at Muroran for 5-day visit

SAPPORO, Japan - The Japan-based U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and the U.S. destroyer Fitzgerald dock at the civilian port of Muroran in southern Hokkaido on Oct. 26 for a five-day visit. Some Japanese military experts suspect that Washington is preparing to use civilian ports in Japan in the event of emergencies in East Asia.

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Ground meat mixed with pork, chicken sold as ground beef

SAPPORO, Japan - Frozen croquettes made from ''ground beef'' supplied by Meat Hope Co., a meat-processing company based in Hokkaido, were found to have been mixed with pork and chicken. Some of the ''beef croquettes'' (as labeled in the photo) were found to contain only pork, according to DNA tests conducted by frozen food maker Katokichi Co. and the Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union. Police searched the premises of Meat Hope on June 24 on suspicion of violating the unfair competition prevention law.

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System glitch causes delays, cancellations in ANA's domestic flights

TOKYO, Japan - The departure lobby at Haneda airport is jammed with passengers stranded by system malfunction at All Nippon Airways Co. on May 27. The glitch caused delays of up to two hours in its domestic flights. Some ANA flights linking Haneda to Sapporo and Fukuoka were canceled.

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1.3 mil. sunflowers in full bloom

SAPPORO, Japan - Some 1.3 million sunflowers are in full bloom in the town of Hokuryu, Hokkaido, on Aug. 10. The sunflowers are planted on some 2.3 hectares of land.

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JAL unveils 'Mushiking' jumbo jets for summer vacationers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines will launch two jumbo jets emblazoned with characters from ''King of Beetle Mushiking,'' a game popular among small Japanese children and students, on some of its flights linking Tokyo with Sapporo, Fukuoka and Kagoshima from July 15 to Aug. 31. Photo shows workers drawing a beetle on a jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 6.

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(1)Sapporo Snow Festival opens for weeklong run

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors to the 56th Sapporo Snow Festival examine a snow-sculpture version of Nagoya Castle in central Sapporo on Feb. 7, the opening day of the weeklong event. Some 2 million people from both home and abroad are expected to visit the festival.

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Sapporo's ''White Illumination'' starts

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourists and citizens take to Odori Koen Park in Sapporo, central Hokkaido, on Nov. 19 as some 370,000 lamps light up trees and other objects in the annual Christmas and yearend illumination.

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Sapporo seeks registration for record number of snowmen

SAPPORO, Japan - People view on Feb. 12 some of the 12,379 snowmen made by citizens and tourists in Sapporo, Hokkaido, over a 19-day period that ended the same date. A committee that organized the making of the snowmen for the just-ended Sapporo Snow Festival said Feb. 13 it will seek registration in the Guinness Book of Records as the number of snowmen in the city topped 12,000 the previous day.

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World assembly for disabled people opens in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - The Disabled Peoples' International Sixth World Assembly opens a four-day meeting at the Hokkaido Synthesis Gymnastics Center in Sapporo on Oct. 15 to discuss issues which affect the disabled. Some 3,000 people from a record 108 countries and territories are expected to participate in the meeting.

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Unofficial World Cup beer 'World Burp' coming to Tokyo

SAPPORO, Japan - Phred Kaufman, a beer importer based in Sapporo, northern Japan, holds up a bottle of ''World Burp Beer'' (L) and a can of ''World Burp happoshu,'' a low-malt, beer-like beverage. The two types of alcoholic beverages, which are currently on sale in some shops in Sapporo, will hit store shelves in Tokyo, Shizuoka and Nagoya in June. Kaufman registered the name ''2002 World Burp Beer'' as a trademark in March 1999.

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Snow Brand uses expired butter in milk products

SAPPORO, Japan - Hideki Takenouchi (L), managing director of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., speaks Feb. 23 at a news conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He talked about the company using some 760 tons of expired frozen butter, after rewriting the expiration dates, in processed milk and other dairy products.

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Preparations for Sapporo Snow Festival go into full swing

SAPPORO, Japan - Trucks of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unload snow at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Jan. 9 to prepare for the 53rd Sapporo Snow Festival on Feb. 5 to 11. Some 7,000 trucks will be mobilized until Jan. 16 to deliver snow from outside Sapporo which will be used by about 25,000 volunteers from civic groups and GDSF personnel to build 312 sculptures made from snow and ice.

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Sapporo faced with heavy snowfall

SAPPORO, Japan - People in Sapporo, Hokkaido, return to their homes in a heavy snowfall Dec. 10. Some 41 centimeters of snow fell in 24 hours from the afternoon of Dec. 9, the record so far this season.

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More than 2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., investigated last year over a food-poisoning scandal, enter a building June 28 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to attend the company's general shareholders' meeting. Some 2,100 listed and unlisted companies across Japan held such meetings the same day.

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First pro-baseball game held at Sapporo Dome

SAPPORO, Japan - Some 43,000 baseball fans watch a ceremony at the newly-opened Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on June 26, held before the start of the first professional baseball game there between the Yomiuri Giants and the Chunichi Dragons. The dome, which opened June 2, will host 12 Central and Pacific League games this season, with an all-star game scheduled for July 24.

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Heavy snow puts freeze on New Chitose airport

SAPPORO, Japan - A jumbo jet gets stalled in heavy snow at New Chitose airport, near Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Dec. 6. The airport's operation was suspended from around 6:45 p.m. and some 38 flights in and out of the airport were canceled.

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Over 10 injured in bus accident in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - More than 10 people are injured Oct. 17 in Hokkaido when a bus they are riding apparently turned over on a woodland path in Mt. Taisetsu national park and tumbles some 4 meters down into a mountain stream.

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Slain member of UN mission remembered in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Some 100 people gather on July 20 at a restaurant in Sapporo to remember Yutaka Akino, one of four members of the U.N. observers shot and killed a year ago in a mountainous area of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Akino, an associate professor at Tsukuba University, was remembered by his students, researchers, Foreign Ministry staff, and family and friends in same restaurant garden where he married his wife Yoko 25 years ago.

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Int'l music festival opens its 10th year in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - A month-long international music festival, founded by U.S. conductor Leonard Bernstein to foster the talents and development of young musicians, opened its 10th year in Sapporo on July 10. Some 5,400 people attended the opening program of the Pacific Music Festival (PMF) at the Sapporo Art Park Outdoor Stage to hear the music of Bernstein and Beethoven played by musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Chien Wen-pin of Taiwan.

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Heavy snow batters northern Japan, disrupts traffic

Heavy snow hit northern Japan on Monday, disrupting air and railway traffic, with weather authorities warning of more blizzards for the region and also some eastern parts of the country. Nearly 180 flights to and from New Chitose Airport, the main air gateway to the northern main island of Hokkaido, were canceled as of 1:30 p.m., while Hokkaido Railway Co. suspended all train runs to and from JR Sapporo Station and the Hokkaido shinkansen bullet train services were delayed as well. Almost 1,100 train runs were canceled in Sapporo and other areas of Hokkaido as of 2:45 p.m.

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Preparations for Sapporo Snow Festival go into full swing

SAPPORO, Japan - Trucks of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unload snow at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Jan. 9 to prepare for the 53rd Sapporo Snow Festival on Feb. 5 to 11. Some 7,000 trucks will be mobilized until Jan. 16 to deliver snow from outside Sapporo which will be used by about 25,000 volunteers from civic groups and GDSF personnel to build 312 sculptures made from snow and ice.

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Sapporo's ''White Illumination'' starts

SAPPORO, Japan - Tourists and citizens take to Odori Koen Park in Sapporo, central Hokkaido, on Nov. 19 as some 370,000 lamps light up trees and other objects in the annual Christmas and yearend illumination. (Kyodo)

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(1)Sapporo Snow Festival opens for weeklong run

SAPPORO, Japan - Visitors to the 56th Sapporo Snow Festival examine a snow-sculpture version of Nagoya Castle in central Sapporo on Feb. 7, the opening day of the weeklong event. Some 2 million people from both home and abroad are expected to visit the festival. (Kyodo)

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JAL unveils 'Mushiking' jumbo jets for summer vacationers

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines will launch two jumbo jets emblazoned with characters from ''King of Beetle Mushiking,'' a game popular among small Japanese children and students, on some of its flights linking Tokyo with Sapporo, Fukuoka and Kagoshima from July 15 to Aug. 31. Photo shows workers drawing a beetle on a jumbo jet at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 6. (Kyodo)

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Kitty Hawk makes port call at Muroran for 5-day visit

SAPPORO, Japan - The Japan-based U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and the U.S. destroyer Fitzgerald dock at the civilian port of Muroran in southern Hokkaido on Oct. 26 for a five-day visit. Some Japanese military experts suspect that Washington is preparing to use civilian ports in Japan in the event of emergencies in East Asia. (Kyodo)