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Sapporo Snow Festival (Hokkaido)

Sapporo Snow Festival is one of the largest festivals of the year in Sapporo, held in February for one week. It began in 1950 when high school students built snow statues in Odori Park, central Sapporo

Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival

Lake Shikotsu is the northernmost ice-free lake which is 363 meters deep. This festival features a moss-covered cave, which has evergreen draped on the inside and is covered in ice (Gianola, 2008). This festival is held from late January to mid February.

Lake Towada Snow Festival[edit]

This lake festival is held in the beginning of February. Held in the town of Yasumiya, this festival is on the south side of Lake Towada (near the wooden statues).

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Manga

Manga are remarkably popular in Japan. They are popular with old and young, men and women.

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Karaoke

It's no myth that Japanese people love Karaoke. The country is dotted with Karaoke establishments offering private Karaoke boxes.

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Sumo

Baseball

Football

Basketball

Handball

Rugby union

Boxing

Volleyball

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The first minister of Japan is the Shinzö Abe and the president is Akihito.

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For over 2000 years, rice has been the most important food in Japanese cuisine.
Sushi may refer to any dish that contains sushi rice, cooked white rice flavored with seasoned rice vinegar.
Donburi refers to a bowl of plain cooked rice with some other food on top of it.
Kare Raisu (Curry Rice) is cooked rice with a Japanese curry sauce
Fried rice, or chahan, is a dish that was originally introduced from China.