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Record snow has buried parts of the island of Hokkaido, Japan, this week. Obihiro received 47 inches (120 cm), setting a new record for 12-hour snowfall Monday night. In the same time period ...
Japan’s northernmost main island has some of the best food and scenery in the country.
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido—“Marimo” moss balls, the fuzzy green spheres that have brought fame to Lake Akanko here, are shrinking because of global warming, a research group found.
The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...
Japan's state-backed microchip venture Rapidus, tasked to boost the country's competitiveness in advanced semiconductors, is considering building its first manufacturing plant in Hokkaido ...
TOKYO - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Nemuro Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported according to Japan’s weather agency.
A vibrant carpet of Shibazakura, or pink moss, against the backdrop of the snow-capped Mt. Fuji awaits visitors to Fujikawaguchiko Town in Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture. About 500,000 of the ...
TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Rapidus has chosen Hokkaido in northern Japan as the location for what is expected to be the nation's most advanced chip plant, Nikkei has learned.
HOKKAIDO – In a Barbie Land setting, pose with millions of bright pink moss flowers in Hokkaido. Then drive on roads that dip and rise through beautiful farmland and endless flower fields.
Higashikawa, a small town in central Hokkaido with a population of just 8,000, has surged to the top of the list of Japan's most comfortable municipalities due to its friendliness and safe ...
IT HAS been estimated that vineyards existed in Japan as early as 718 AD, in Katsunuma, Yamanashi prefecture. But it was sometime in the 16th century that winemaking started with the arrival of the ...
The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth, measuring 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in areas such as Taiki and Urahoro in the eastern region of Hokkaido Prefecture, the agency said.