After that, the Hokkaido Development Commissioner ... The local tourist association organizes events throughout the year. This past summer, I visited Jozankei during Nature Luminarie 2024 ...

Nippon Ichi Software will release travel adventure game Fuuraiki, which originally launched for PlayStation on December 10, 1996 in Japan, for PC via Steam on March 27 in Japan, the company ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu ... The group contends the Ainu, who mainly inhabit Hokkaido, are not an indigenous people, unlike the Aborigines ...

A 73-year-old man was beaten and had his rucksack containing 150,000 and other items stolen in Otofuke town, Hokkaido, police said Sunday. The incident occurred at around 5:40 p.m. on Saturday, ...

Twenty teams with a total of about 60 dogs from Hokkaido and other prefectures took ... The competition had six different events. The dogs ran powerfully through the snow to the voices of their ...

The wildlife of northern Japan is one of the main attractions for travelers who journey to the island of Hokkaido to enjoy all that nature has to offer. But visitors and locals alike are dealing ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...