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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Sapporo, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 71stories have been published about Sapporo which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Fossils · Sapporo

Fossils from Japan reveal squids evolved and dominated in dinosaur age seas

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A new, advanced technique for studying fossils has revealed that squids evolved more than 50 million years earlier than previously thought and dominated Earth’s ancient seas. Cephalopods – the group which includes squids and octopuses – first emerged about 500 million years ago (mya). Very little is known about the evolution of cephalopods over their half-a-billion-year history because soft-bodied animals rarely fossilise. Today, squids are the …See the Story

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Man gets 30 years in prison for fatal knife attack at Sapporo convenience store

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to 30 years in prison for stabbing three employees, one of them to death, at a Sapporo convenience store last year. The defense for Hirotaka Miyanishi had called for his acquittal on the grounds that he was not mentally competent at…Read Article

Air Travel · Sapporo

Greater Bay Airlines Adds Sapporo Service From Dec 2025 — AeroRoutes

Published at 0700PDT / 1400GMT 02JUL25Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines this week opened reservations for service to Hokkaido during Northern winter 2025/26 season, as the carrier schedules Hong Kong – Sapporo New Chitose nonstop flight. From 17DEC25, Boeing 737-800 aircraft to serve this route 4 time weekly.HB008 HKG0710 – 1255CTS 738 2HB008 HKG0810 – 1355CTS 738 3HB008 HKG0955 – 1540CTS 738 1HB008 HKG1015 – 1600CTS 738 567HB009 CTS1600 – 2110HK…Read Article

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Apex Legends Global Series Championships Will Stay in Japan Until at Least 2028

The Year 5 and 6 events have been announced and locked in.Apex Legends · SapporoSee the Story

Jr Hokkaido to Be Audited over Train and Equipment Contact (Kyodo News)

At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on the 1st, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Hiromasa Nakano revealed that an audit of JR Hokkaido's subcontractors' construction management will be conducted in July, following a series of incidents involving trains coming into contact with equipment left on the tracks.Sapporo · SapporoRead Article

First Record of Arion subfuscus in Japan: A Two-Century, Climate- and Trade-Mediated Invasion Pathway

In 2024, we report the first confirmed occurrence of Arion subfuscus (Arionidae) in Japan—also the first Arion ever documented there. Specimens from Hokkaido (Northern Japan) were identified by morphology and mitochondrial 16S sequencing. Phylogenetic analyses placed the Japanes...Sapporo · SapporoRead Article

Multiple Accidents in Sapporo and Asahikawa: 14 People Transported (Kyodo News)

At around 4:20 pm on the 26th, there were multiple calls to 110 reporting an "accident" on National Route 36 near Tsukisamu Higashi 1-jo, Toyohira Ward, Sapporo City. According to the Hokkaido Prefectural Police Toyohira Station, it appears that a truck ran into the opposite lane and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle, then returned to its original lane, causing a chain reaction accident.Sapporo · SapporoRead Article

Man arrested after kicking girlfriend who demanded to see his smartphone

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his 19-year-old girlfriend after they got into an argument when she demanded to see his smartphone. According to police, the incident occurred at the girl’s home between 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, TBS reported. The man,…Smartphones · SapporoRead Article

Man Arrested in Sapporo for Posting Fake Arrest Warrant, Related to Special Fraud Investigation (Kyodo News)

On the 25th, Sapporo Nishi Police Station arrested Shunpei Mega (33), an unemployed man from Sakaiminami-cho, Musashino City, Tokyo, on suspicion of using a forged official document with a seal, for posting a fake arrest warrant to the home of a man in his 70s in Chuo Ward, Sapporo. The man later became the victim of a special fraud using the fake arrest warrant, and the police stationSapporo · SapporoRead Article

Hokkaido Univ. allows isolated researchers to operate labs, guide students after complaints

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SAPPORO -- Hokkaido University's chemistry department has permitted several associate professors -- who had previously complained of systematic isolatProfessors · SapporoRead Article

Girls as young as 8 show cognitive sensitivity to their own body weight, new study finds

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

A new study has found that girls as young as eight or nine years old already have a tendency to notice and respond to numbers representing their own body weight, in ways that are different from boys. When these girls were shown a number referring to their weight, their attention was drawn to it and it distracted them from other visual information. This was not the case for boys, suggesting that an awareness of one’s body weight develops differen…Sapporo · SapporoRead Article

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