Sapporo International Art Festival
Sapporo International Art festival (SIAF) is held once every three years by the city of Sapporo. Next time, it will be held from 6 August...
Japanese author 5: Sasaki Jyo
Sasaki Jyo has been writing hard-boiled suspense novels, adventure novels, and police fiction. He was born in 1950 in Yubari, Hokkaido....
Japanese author 4: Kuroki Ryo
Until now, I’ve introduced some national authors. Since now, I want to introduce “Regional authors” which mean authors born in Hokkaido....
Japanese author 3: Asada Jiro
Asada Jiro is the president of The Japan P.E.N Club and has written picaresque novels, period novels, and historical novels. He was born...
Japanese author 2: Fujisawa Shuhei
Fujisawa Syuhei is famous for his period novels. He usually wrote not a hero but nameless ordinary people. He was born in Yamagata...
Japanese author 1: Shiba Ryotaro
It may be a quite effective way of knowing a foreign country to read novels written by its national authors while it is so difficult....
500-m gallery
500-m gallery is officially known as Sapporo Odori 500-m underground walkway gallery and is located between subway Odori station and Bus...