Sapporo is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city in Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city in Japan. It is the capital city of Hokkaido Prefecture and Ishikari Subprefecture. Sapporo lies in the southwest of Hokkaido, within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, which is a tributary stream of the Ishikari. It is considered the cultural, economic, and political center of Hokkaido.
Sapporo in Joe Steele[]
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In the short story "Joe Steele", Sapporo is the capital of North Japan, the puppet state created by the Soviet Union from Hokkaido and northern Honshu after World War II. It is destroyed by the first American atomic bomb on August 6, 1949 at the end of the Japanese War.
However, Sapporo is only mentioned once in the novel during the "Red Curtain Speech" and Sendai is the North Japanese city destroyed by an American atom bomb.
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