Sugizuru led a team that produced a snow sculpture resembling the former red-brick Hokkaido government office building. The sculpture is 12 meters high and 24 meters wide. In the week to Jan.

The “My Neighbor Totoro” snow sculpture gained 1,129 votes in a public poll held on Feb. 11, the last day of the festival. It was created by a team from Toko Electrical Construction Co.’s ...