Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city ... to the region every winter. But this sleepy city tucked away on the west coast of the island of Hokkaido has become the latest ...

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous cooking create a cuisine like no other.

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...

Record snow has buried parts of the island of Hokkaido, Japan, this week ... In some parts of the country, an especially snowy winter continues. Aomori City is reported to have spent the largest ...