Police in Kushiro, Hokkaido, have arrested a 77-year-old woman after she pointed a knife at her husband in his 70s and threatened to kill him. The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, ...

Residents of the Hokkaido town of Suttsu expressed anxiety on Saturday after survey results were presented regarding where ...

Hokkaido has once again clinched the top spot in a nationwide survey assessing the appeal of Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to a report released by a research firm on Oct. 13. This marks the ...

A deer caught in a wire snare in Niseko, Hokkaido, is suspected to have fatally pierced a local farmer in the chest with its ...

Japan's JR Hakodate Line resumed operation on Tuesday after a freight train derailment in the country's northernmost ...

A documentary film following the daily lives of four Japanese chefs as they create dishes within the rich culinary culture ...

The head of the party's Hokkaido chapter has expressed concern over the finances for the project, which aims to produce ...

In Hokkaido, Hakodate City Tram's snowplow car called Sasara Densha had a test run on November 13 to prepare for the snowy ...

SHARI, Hokkaido--The Japan Coast Guard said April 24 that 10 bodies had been recovered after a tourist boat went missing the day before in frigid conditions off Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula.

"Gary, I have some news," Yoshi said. "We have a few grains of barley from a site on the Hokkaido University campus. I think you should come and look at them." The Japanese language is notorious ...

But Hokkaido is in the spotlight again as it struggles to deal with a second wave of infections. In late February, Hokkaido became the first place in Japan to declare a state of emergency due to ...