Tomakomai city, a port metropolis on the central south coast of Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture, has issued a public invitation ...

Faced with soaring ticket prices and bare slopes at many U.S. resorts, Americans are flocking to the island of Hokkaido, ...

A bounty of riches originates as the waters of the Tokachigawa river freezes in the extreme cold of midwinter, allowing the resulting ice floes to drift downstream.

Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan, is said to be the birthplace of Japan's modern beer industry with the ...

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, Memuro ...

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Japan’s northernmost island, plan to revise by this autumn their “basic stance” regarding a possible tilt at having an ...

An annual sumo tournament on a ring made of snow has been held in a town in Hokkaido. It took place in front of a railway station building that is no longer used because the rail line has been ...

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Over 80 years after Soviet forces seized four islands from Japan, former Japanese residents remain unable to return to their hometowns.