SAPPORO--The internationally popular Sapporo Snow Festival will be held in February but with fewer and smaller ice sculptures, no sales vendors and zero stage events, the executive committee said.

Visitors are flocking to Sapporo, northern Japan, to see frozen sculptures at the festival, which marks its 70th anniversary this year. Almost 200 snow and ice sculptures are on display at three ...

An observatory at the top of Moiwa, which provides panoramic view of Sapporo, was seen covered with snow on Sunday morning. “When I came here last week, much of the mountain was still green ...