SAPPORO, Japan (Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off an elaborate weeklong affair ...

SAPPORO—Hokkaido University’s Botanic Garden here has been closed since Oct. 1 after a wild deer was spotted on the grounds. Officials chose to shut down the location out of concern for ...

SAPPORO, Feb 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off as an elaborate ...

This year's festival came dangerously close to being cancelled, before it was saved by a last-minute snowfall Japan's Sapporo ...

They were even spotted near Mount Moiwayama, just a few kilometers from Odori Park in central Sapporo. There were 18 sightings by mid-July. Hiroshi Matsui, 83, was stunned to see the parent bear ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival will run until Feb. 11. Five giant snow sculptures, each about 10 to 13 meters tall, were set up at the Odori Park main venue. Among them is one based on the famous red ...

People carve a lump of snow into the shape of a human face in the "Citizen's Snow Sculptures" area in Odori Park, in Sapporo's Chuo Ward in this Jan. 31, 2017, file photo. (Mainichi/Koichiro ...