A solar energy company planning a megaproject near Kushiroshitsugen National Park in Kushiro, Hokkaido, has provided ...

The rapid spread of the wildfire in Ofunato was caused by both government neglect and the worsening of climate change around the world.

Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the country's largest wildfire in three decades raged unabated ...

which Kushiro city officials said was one of the largest concentrations of Ainu on Hokkaido. It was not built to be a tourist attraction, residents said, but it has become one. Its central street ...

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

The Japanese icebreaker Soya, known as the “guardian of the northern sea,” will soon be decommissioned after more than 40 ...

The fire is estimated to have spread across some 1,400 hectares (3,000 acres) in the forest of Ofunato, the largest area to have been burnt out since a 1992 wildfire in Kushiro, Hokkaido ...

Travel well in Hokkaido with our epic Japan travel guide! We visited Kushiro, Lake Kussharo, Sounkyo and Asahikawa, capturing the best things to see, do and eat in winter. Hopefully, our video ...

Nikko Co., a food machinery maker based in Kushiro, Hokkaido, manufactures equipment for automatically removing abductor muscles from shell-on scallops. A company representative said the number of ...

Wet weather looked poised to offer relief Wednesday as Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century in a northern region hit by record-low rainfall. Ofunato had just 2.5 millimetres (0.1 inches) ...