Chaperone Shinko Tsunoda arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 with four students: Hiito Wakasone, Ryoga Sato, Mimi ...

Pauline from New Zealand stood mesmerized by the ice castles and lifelike Asian landmarks, all aglow in neon lights under the ...

Hokkaido, Japan, holds secrets beyond its renowned snow festivals and seafood delicacies. Come summer, the island blooms into a painter's palette of lavender fields, while heritage railroads ...

In the city of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, people are making the specialty bodara. Fresh cod caught in the sea around Hokkaido are ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

The weather pattern of Dec. 17 to 18 that year resulted in a low-pressure system developing in the Sea of Japan that traveled through the south of Hokkaido to reach the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is renowned for its rich and creamy milk, a product of ideal climate, nutrient-rich soil, and generations of dairy farming expertise. This milk has become a ...

"Our story is set in the lands surrounding Mount Yotei," the blog details, "a towering peak in the heart of Ezo, an area of Japan known as Hokkaido in present day." Interestingly, the setting ...

In September 2019, researchers visited the Northern Territories off the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, as part of a Japan-Russia expert exchange program. The team ...

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows business sentiment has improved ...

Takeyoshi Kono twining string around the bamboo ribs of a fan at the Marugame Uchiwa Museum in Marugame, Japan.Credit...Andrew Faulk for The New York Times Supported by By Vivian Morelli ...

TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer price inflation probably accelerated in November, driven by persistently high rice prices and the phasing out of utility subsidies, a Reuters poll ...