Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric northeastern Japan, particularly Hokkaido, using an archeological tool called flotation.

Japanese weather officials say a rapidly growing low-pressure system is intensifying winds across the country, bringing ...

Police in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fraudulent obstruction of business after he mixed urine into hand soap in a drugstore toilet. Police said ...

Of the 38 people stranded this season ... including the guide. On Feb. 4, Hokkaido police sent papers on the tour company president and another representative to prosecutors on suspicion of ...

Japanese culture has all but assimilated the the Ainu, leaving few people even aware of their heritage. Hokkaido still offers opportunities to learn about and experience Ainu culture which informs ...

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

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 ...

Five people were killed June 18 after an intercity bus collided with a truck carrying a load of pigs in the town of Yakumo in southwestern Hokkaido. The bus was carrying 15 passengers ...

As the number of users is unlikely to recover from a prolonged decline, JR Hokkaido has decided to close the station.

Jewelry makers and an embroiderer are among the craftspeople whose creations reflect the Indigenous people’s heritage. Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido ...