A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...

Overtourism is causing disruptions to the lives of residents here, a popular destination for travelers.In the first half of ...

Heavy snowfall affected parts of Hokkaido from the night of Monday, February 3, into Tuesday, February 4. The Pacific side of ...

In eastern Hokkaido, April is the spawning season for ... Local government road construction upstream of the location had brought a deluge of sediment to the spawning area. As a result, the ...

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 ...

Hokkaido's rise as a wine region owes not just ... Noirs ― de Montille began a global search for a more promising location. Grapes damaged by heat in Burgundy Around ten years ago, he tried ...

Hokkaido, on Feb. 19, 2025. (Mainichi/Taichi Kaizuka) A local residential neighborhood is also home to Funami-zaka slope, an oft-used film location and thus a major draw for foreign tourists ...