A staggering 80 percent of racehorses are produced in the Hidaka region of Hokkaido. Urakawa is particularly famous as a leading production area in Hidaka. A national breeding farm was installed ...

Frankel's son Mozu Ascot claimed a first black-type victory as a stallion when Faust Rasen won Japan's most significant ...

Enter Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main ... after all), you’ll at the very least have incredible views of the Hidaka Mountains. It’s only open from May to October, and while you ...

Located in Central Hokkaido about a two-hour drive from New ... a great viewing location offering beautiful views of the Hidaka Mountains. Just a few steps away, you can head to the Cloud Walk ...

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SAPPORO, Japan -- Qantas Airways will bring back direct flights from Australia to Hokkaido's New Chitose Airport for the first time in six years in December, as efforts to address a labor shortage ...

Being biracial can pose particular challenges — especially if the place you call home is as monocultural as Japan is. For Kiera Wright-Ruiz, a Tokyo-based, New York-born author of Ecuadorian and ...

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 ...