Nitobe was in the second class of the Sapporo Agricultural College ( now Hokkaido University ).

Nitobe continued his teaching tenure at Sapporo until 1897 as he took leave from the college.

They were the third Olympic Games and second winter Olympics to be held in Japan, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan ; and Gothenburg, Sweden.

The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from February 3 to February 13, 1972 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan.

All the cities awarded Games that were cancelled due to war have since hosted the Games ( Berlin, London, Tokyo, Helsinki, Sapporo and Cortina d ' Ampezzo ).

The Sapporo APS classification criteria ( 1998, published in 1999 ) were replaced by the Sydney criteria in 2006.

* The 1972 Winter Olympics, which were held in Sapporo, Japan

Liquidators were appointed and it was decided the company would be sold to the Dai-Nippon Brewery ( which in 1949 was split into Asahi Brewery and what later became Sapporo Brewery ).

Several snow festivals existed in Sapporo prior to the Sapporo Snow Festival, however, all of these were suspended during World War II.

His wife and daughter were killed during the Sapporo bombing.

" Two of his three daughters were born in Japan: Yuki was born in Sapporo in 1939, Antonella ( Toni ) in Tokio in 1941.

The entire chassis was derived from the previous high-performance variant of the Mitsubishi Sapporo or Mitsubishi Galant Lambda sports coupe, with a MacPherson strut suspension and swaybars that were fitted to front and rear.

Japan Beer has since reorganized and was renamed Sapporo Breweries Ltd. After the breweries were moved to Chiba in 1988, the area was redeveloped as the Yebisu Garden Place, which opened to the public in 1994.

Its brewing business operations were transferred to a newly established wholly owned operating subsidiary " Sapporo Breweries Limited.

Interior and exterior of the Sapporo TV Tower were renovated in 2002, and the color of walls at the second and third floor was turned from pale green to dark green.

The Sapporo TV Tower commemorated its 50th anniversary in 2007, and some events and discount campaign were held.

The 1940 Winter Olympics, which would have been officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, were to be celebrated in 1940 in Sapporo, Japan, but the games were eventually cancelled due to the onset of World War II.

* Hokkaidō Ainu clustered into several dialects with substantial differences between them: the ' neck ' of the island ( Oshima County, data from Oshamambe and Yakumo ); the " Classical " Ainu of central Hokkaidō around Sapporo and the southern coast ( Iburi and Hidaka counties, data from Horobetsu, Biratori, Nukkibetsu, and Niikappu ; historical records from Ishikari County and Sapporo show that these were similar ); Samani ( on the southeastern cape in Hidaka, but perhaps closest to the northeastern dialect ); the northeast ( data from Obihiro, Kushiro, and Bihoro ); the north-central dialect ( Kamikawa County, data from Asahikawa and Nayoro ); and Sōya ( on the northwestern cape ), which was closest of all Hokkaidō varieties to Sakhalin Ainu.

In the early 1970s, two other Shinkansen routes were proposed for Hokkaido: Sapporo-Asahikawa ( Hokkaido Shinkansen extension ) and Oshamambe-Muroran – Sapporo ( Hokkaido South Route ).

In 1878 in Sapporo, it was decided to set higher bounties for wolves than bears in order to further motivate the ethnic Ainu people into killing wolves, which were once considered sacred to them.

* Three more Sapporo stores were inaugurated in July 2001, each located inside well known Japanese department stores.

Nitro Mega Prayer were influenced by the late 90s early 2000s hardcore / punk bands from Tokyo and Sapporo ( Swipe, there is a light that never goes out, Nine Days Wonder, The Sun, Tiala, 100 Lots, Kulara ) putting them in the second generation of Japanese bands that had been influenced by the Gravity Records, Dischord ( Revolution Summer Era ) and Ebulltion Records Sound of the 90's.

The main Sapporo campus is located just north of Sapporo Station, and holds every programs available in Hokkaido University except its Faculty of Fisheries Science, and also Graduate School of Fisheries Science.

In an experiment conducted by the Department of Neurosurgery at Hokkaido University School of Medicine in Sapporo, Japan, Scientists proposed that the origin of mirror writing comes from damage caused through accidental brain damage or neurological diseases, such as an essential tremor, Parkinson ’ s disease, or spino-cerebellar degeneration.

Sapporo Agricultural College was founded as the Sapporo School in September 1875.

Working his way through school, he graduated from Sapporo Normal School ( today's Hokkaidō University of Education ).

Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Yokohama have subway systems.

The main domestic hub is Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda Airport ), Asia's busiest airport and the world's 4th busiest airport ; other major traffic hubs include Osaka International Airport, New Chitose Airport outside Sapporo, and Fukuoka Airport.

There are also charter flights to the Japanese cities of Tokyo, Niigata, and Sapporo and to the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Dalian, and Harbin.

All of these airports have flights to Tokyo and other major Japanese cities such as Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, and Fukuoka.

There are flights to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, and Seoul, South Korea.

JR East Cassiopeia ( train ) | Cassiopeia sleeper car service from Tokyo to Sapporo with 180 degree views

On July 23, 1999, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 747-481D with 503 passengers, including 14 children and 14 crew members on board, took off from Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda Airport ) in Ota, Tokyo, Japan and was en route to New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Japan, near Sapporo when it was hijacked by.

While NTT is listed on Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, New York, and London stock exchanges, the Japanese government still owns roughly one-third of NTT's shares, regulated by the NTT Law.

, formally known as, was a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo.

As of 2003, the company employed over 500 people, with offices in Sapporo, Tokyo, and California.

There are buses to Sapporo and Asahikawa, as well as a daily flight to Tokyo from Monbetsu Airport.

Sendai has a moderate, humid subtropical ( Köppen Cfa ), climate, with neither the very hot summers of Tokyo nor the snowbound winters of Sapporo.

The Satelight studio, originally founded in Sapporo, relocated to the Asagaya neighborhood in 2006 ( an earlier Tokyo office, at a different location in Suginami, had been in existence since 2003 ).

Although airlines have experienced some success with routes to the most popular domestic destinations, such as Tokyo, Sapporo and Okinawa, routes to secondary cities have been less successful.

It is headquartered in the in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, and its main base of operations is Tokyo International Airport in Ōta, Tokyo.

Air Do operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations from Tokyo and Sapporo.

Major exhibitions of her work include Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan ( 1987 ); Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York ( 1989 ); " Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 – 1969 ", LACMA, 1998 ( traveling to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ), 1998 – 99 ; Le Consortium, Dijon, 2000 ( traveled to Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris ; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark ; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse ; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ; and Artsonje Center, Seoul, 2001 – 2003 ); " KUSAMATRIX ", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 ( traveling to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido ); " Eternity – Modernity ", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ( touring Japan ), 2004 – 2005 ; and " The Mirrored Years ", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008 ( traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009 ).