Hokkaido, Japan News

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.

Skymark Airlines , on 20 April, began two new routes from Sendai , the capital of the Miyagi Prefecture, to Fukuoka , situated on the northern coast of Kyushu Island, and Sapporo Chitose , Japan's fourth largest city.

The Sapporo Beer Museum is located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Sapporo, and is the only beer museum in Japan.

The Japanese Coast Guard detained a ship with 15 Russian sailors on board. The ship with the flag of Cambodia was engaged in crab poaching in the exclusive economic zone in the waters near the island of Hokkaido.

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