Japanese weather officials say a rapidly growing low-pressure system is intensifying winds across the country, bringing ...

Native Americans and other indigenous peoples saw the world as sacred and spiritual, pervaded with a spiritual force. This ...

The Japanese icebreaker Soya, known as the “guardian of the northern sea,” will soon be decommissioned after more than 40 ...

As Japan’s population ages, cities like Yubari have to choose between finding new ways to attract more residents or focusing ...

Three winters from now, Japan's snowy Myoko highlands will be home to a $1.4 billion mega-resort built by a Singaporean fund, ...

We'll understand Japan and Hokkaido's geographical challenges, and specifically the island's harsh climate, historical context (namely the forced integration of the native Ainu), and economic ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...

A 20-year-old woman was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in prison by a Japanese district court for killing a high schoo ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...