NEMURO, Hokkaido–This year’s commercial whaling of minke whales has begun off the coast of eastern Hokkaido, with the first ...

In a related development, a day after the tremor, the Japanese government released updated estimates concerning the potential impact of a major earthquake originating from the Nankai Trough. This ...

It’s not clear whether the orca is a true albino or its white coloring was caused by another medical condition.

If things continue on the same course, the researchers predict there will be times in the future when no ice floes will reach Hokkaido’s coast. This past winter, as in all earlier years ...

Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co recently reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint ...

Hokkaido is a shapeshifter with a wild heart ... with a cycling road stretching along the coast in the north. Another must-see for nature-lovers is Sounkyo in the district of Kamikawa.

HOKKAIDO – The first man slips on a bright green frog hat and, one by one, the rest of the five middle-aged singers follow suit. Then it begins: He croaks out a low baritone tune, the next man ...

Researchers from Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology released the results of their five-year study of the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido.