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Sapporo snow fest cancelled

Sapporo snow fest cancelled

The Thai team won the Sapporo International Snow Sculpture championship title for the third consecutive year on Feb 7, 2020. The event will be cancelled next year. (Hokkaidofanclub Facebook account photo)

SAPPORO: The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan’s biggest winter events held in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido around February, will be cancelled for the first time since its inception in 1950 amid a surge in novel coronavirus infections.

The festival, which usually features large snow and ice statues in the city centre,…

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