In Pictures: Final Preparations for the Sapporo Snow Festival
On Friday, a blast of warm air invaded Hokkaido (and the rest of Japan), sending temperatures up into the above-freezing
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Vine Views: Snow clearing in Sapporo
While today was unseasonably warm across Hokkaido (it was a melty 5 degrees celcius in my neighborhood), there’s still plenty
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Around the Web: Hokkaido’s Insider goes national and Google adds Pyongyang
In this week’s installment of Around the Web — a collection of interesting things I’ve been reading online — I’ve
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Icy dinosaurs and other Snow Festival fun
The 2013 Sapporo Snow Festival is now just days away. As a new resident of Sapporo who has never been,
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The Sapporo Snow Festival is currently under construction (updated)
Sapporo’s Odori Park, already covered in white thanks to the city’s active early winter, has been transformed into a snowy
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New look Japan Times, the coldest village on earth, and more from around the web
Welcome to the first edition of Around the Web, a collection of links to articles or websites that we found
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Winter Scene: Sapporo Blizzard
We’re asking for reader photos of winter in Hokkaido to share on the blog. To share your photo, send the
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Jared Boasen
Jared Boasen, who will write a monthly column for Hokkaido Explorer on life in the north of Hokkaido, talks about his background, his career as a musician, and the sense of community in the tiny mountain town he calls home. This email interview took place in November 2012.
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Welcome aboard
My first job as an editor came when I was a grade schooler in rural eastern Oregon in the United States, where a hand-crafted version of The Traylor Gazette
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Blizzards, Ramen and Wisdom
There are poets, myself among them, who at times wax long on the serenity of winter. Certainly for those that
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