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Sapporo , city (1990 pop. 1,671,742), capital of Hokkaido prefecture, SW Hokkaido, Japan. It is one of Japan's most rapidly growing urban centers. Food processing, electronics, beer, lumbering, woodworking, and printing are the major industries. Sapporo is also a tourist and winter-sports center. It is famous for its annual Snow Festival and played host to the 1972 winter Olympics. Hokkaido Univ. and Sapporo Agricultural School are in the city.

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Sapporo, Hokkaidō/Japan Laid out in 1871. The name may come from the Ainu satu‐poro‐betsu ‘a river which runs along a plain filled with reeds or ‘a long dry river bed’; or from the Ainu sachi‐poro‐kotan ‘large grass‐covered plain’. Most place names in Hokkaidō are from Ainu, but when the Japanese arrived they replaced these with Chinese characters.

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