In eastern Hokkaido, April is the spawning season for ito. An Asahi Shimbun reporter, camera in hand, recently had the rare chance to witness two male ito, each over 1 meter in length and their ...

A Dentsu Group Inc. company said it will return about 110 million yen ($705,000) it received from overbilling the health ...

Police in Eniwa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 21-year-old Self-Defense Forces officer on suspicion of assaulting a female university student with whom he was in a relationship. Police said Ryota Nosaka ...

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Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported in December that ... As a child in northern Hokkaido, where he used to play in the forest, he realised the importance of “the wonderful relationship ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan, who are attracted by the country’s many resources for tourism, has increased ...

Japan has seen a number of house fires, mainly on its Pacific Ocean side. Due to dry air, fires are spreading quickly and ...

This northern Japanese city implemented new measures on Jan. 28 to address repeated instances of disruptive behavior by ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- Nestled along a picturesque canal in Otaru, a historic port town in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, is a building with weathered brick walls and green-framed windows ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- The "Monster Wolf," a robot developed at a small factory in Naie on Japan's northernmost main island, Hokkaido, is raising hopes -- and drawing a few double-takes -- in farming ...

The two bodies were found by police at around 2:30 p.m. in different rooms of their two-story house in Minami Ward, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corp reported. The couple’s niece had called police at around ...

Japan is working to arrange a trip for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the United States before mid-February for talks with incoming ...