The sea of Shakotan Peninsula, which juts out into the Japan Sea in western Hokkaido, is a vivid blue in summer when the waves are quiet. The color, called "Shakotan Blue," changes according to ...

A ride through Hokkaido Prefecture in early summer. We meet an artisan teaching handicrafts of the indigenous Ainu to the next generation, and a legendary trainer of an unusual horse race.

a tributary of the Shubuto River flowing through the town of Kuromatsunai in southwestern Hokkaido. Farmers began noticing a significant drop in water levels around the summer of 2023. The river ...

Hokkaido sika deer numbers have since multiplied ... “The deer crossed the strait walking on ice floes in winter or swam across it in summer, but details of routes they traveled remain unknown ...

In Hokkaido, high seawater temperatures have also apparently changed the appearance of kelp. Since summer, a thread-like organism called Hydrozoa has been increasingly found on the surface of kelp.

Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan. The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people ...

There is trouble on the horizon in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, where poor fishing conditions triggered by global ...