Hokkaido, Japan News

Climb the little grassy knoll to your right and you will find hidden and nestling in its top a sunken outdoor auditorium with at its center a great marble shape, smoothly surfaced and sensually rounded as if begging to be stroked, or even caressed.

Few, if any, similarities exist between the redactions of the Benghazi e-mails and the deletions and distortions made by Richard Nixon in his taped conversations.

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smouldering batteries.

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 “Dreamliner,” will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.

In Japan, taxis are typically black. Sometimes, they're white or even yellow, but generally, people think of them as being dark-colored and dull looking.

From the Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine , Division of Stroke Care Unit , and Department of Neurology , National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan; Department of Neurology, Stroke Center, Kobe City General Hospital, Kobe, Japan ; Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan ; ... (more)

Japan's All Nippon Airways on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule.

Situated near Lake Akan in Kushiro city of Hokkaido, Tsuraga Wings, or Akan Yuku no Sato Tsuruga as it used to be known, perfectly combines Japanese tradition with the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan.

When National Gallery of Canada curators started pulling together work by indigenous artists from around the world for the summer exhibit Sakahan , they discovered surprising connections.

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera says North Korea's missile threats are continuing and that the ministry needs to closely monitor the North for the medium-to-long term.

Toshiya Kubo consistently gravitates to the peripheral. As a teenager, while his friends rushed to buy Beatles records, Kubo searched for lesser-known musicians; the mainstream in media flocked to Tokyo while Kubo preferred Hokkaido, the prefecture of his birth; producers look toward feature films as the pinnacle of success while Kubo favors shorts ... (more)

Open access publisher BioMed Central is proud to announce a new partnership with The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, to launch the new journal entitled Journal of Intensive Care .

EVA Air continued to expand its presence in Japan last week, as it inaugurates thrice-weekly services on the route from its Taipei Taoyuan hub to Asahikawa on 2 May.

Source: Itar-Tass The Japanese Coast Guard detained a ship with 15 Russian sailors on board.

On Saturday, May 11 beginning at noon, young entrepreneurs Meret Beutler and Karoline Ernst will be selling a delicious gift for Mother's Day at the entrance to Safeway - beautifully-wrapped giant homemade cookies, $10 each, along with homemade lemonade for $2 a glass .

Takumi Kuriyama had four hits and four RBIs, and Ryo Sakata homered and doubled to drive in three as the Saitama Seibu Lions battered the visiting Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 15-1 on Sunday.