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Japans popular ice sculpturing event Sapporo Snow Festival has been kicked off.The Snow Festival began in 1950, when local high school students built six snow statues in Odori Park in 1955, the Self-Defense Force joined in and built the very first massive snow sculpture, for which the Snow Festival has become famous for now.Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park, the grounds at Satoland, and the main street in Susukino. For seven days in February, these statues and sculptures turn Sapporo into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow.
