Some ski towns in Japan are booming from a rise in international visitors, while resorts in other areas are closing as ...

But a survey last year by the Hokkaido prefecture found that almost 30 percent of the Ainu respondents said they had encountered discrimination in highly homogeneous Japan. Still, the Ainu have ...

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

However, the Hokkaido town of Kutchan, which introduced its own lodging tax system in fiscal 2019, has objected to the idea of a prefecture-wide tax system. The town already imposes a 2 percent ...