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 ...

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

Electricity demand in Hokkaido is expected to grow the fastest in the country, as the region prepares to roll out energy-intensive data centers and semiconductor chip-making plants. Annual power ...

The prices for marine products from Hokkaido halved following China’s ... water from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the ocean in August. China had long been Japan ...

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.

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Semiconductor equipment maker ASML plans to set up a base in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido to support production at a new Rapidus chip plant, the Nikkei daily said on Tuesday.

Electricity demand in Japan’s Hokkaido area is expected to grow the fastest in the country, as the region prepares to roll out energy-intensive data centers and semiconductor chip-making plants ...