Koike said the plant will at first need several hundred employees, but ultimately upward of 1,000. And chip makers are competing for engineers amid the worldwide rise in demand for semiconductors.

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

Sumitomo Electric, the company that built the Hokkaido plant, has also built flow batteries in Taiwan, Belgium, Australia, Morocco and California. Hokkaido’s flow battery farm was the biggest in ...

Electricity demand in Japan’s Hokkaido area is expected to grow the fastest in the country, as the region prepares to roll ...

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.

A government investigation has confirmed that tunnel construction for the shinkansen bullet train line extension to Sapporo ...

When plants are thin on the ground in winter due ... According to the Natural Environment Division at the Hokkaido prefectural government, the number of Ezo shika deer in Hokkaido excluding ...

Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the ...

Nearly 3 million households throughout Hokkaido are without power. The industry ministry says the tremor shut down the largest thermal power plant in Hokkaido, the Tomato-Atsuma plant, which in ...