Chaperone Shinko Tsunoda arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 with four students: Hiito Wakasone, Ryoga Sato, Mimi ...

Travel well in Hokkaido with our epic Japan travel guide! We visited Kushiro, Lake Kussharo, Sounkyo and Asahikawa, capturing the best things to see, do and eat in winter. Hopefully, our video ...

Fuel has begun leaking from a small product tanker that ran aground off Japan on Monday. The 5,000-dwt Sanwa Maru (built 2018) got stuck off Cape Esan in the Tsugaru Strait, the Asahi Shimbun daily ...

Police in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of starting a fire at a Hello Work office. According to police, the incident occurred at around 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

A public high school in Hokkaido, which is in danger of being consolidated due to declining student numbers, plans to attract ...

A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido experienced a massive sardine beaching in late December but has struggled to find a company to dispose of the fish due to the New Year holidays, ...

Fuel oil has leaked from a 3,919-ton tanker that ran aground here on Jan. 6, but its cargo of 3,800 kiloliters of diesel fuel ...

A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido experienced a massive sardine beaching in late December but has st ...

A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido faced a massive sardine beaching in late December but has struggled to ...

Hokkaido, Japan, holds secrets beyond its renowned snow festivals and seafood delicacies. Come summer, the island blooms into a painter's palette of lavender fields, while heritage railroads ...

with inquiries about Japan travel packages nearly doubling. Top destinations include Tokyo, Kyoto, Hokkaido, Fukuoka and Osaka, with the highest booking demand coming from Shanghai, Beijing ...

The weather pattern of Dec. 17 to 18 that year resulted in a low-pressure system developing in the Sea of Japan that traveled through the south of Hokkaido to reach the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.