The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest winter events, attracted a record-high 2.74 million visitors thanks to good weather and an influx of Chinese holidaymakers during the Lunar New Year period, its organizer said Tuesday.The event, held since 1950, was staged from late last month through Monday in Hokkaido's capital city, overlapping with this year's weeklong Chinese New Year holidays, which began Feb. 4.The record figure showed that both domestic and foreign visitors were "back completely" after a major earthquake in the prefecture last September caused declines in the …READ FULL ARTICLE
