The estimated population of brown bears in Hokkaido stood at 11,600 as of the end of 2023, down 500 from the previous year, ...

Hokkaido Railway Co. said Monday it will launch two new sightseeing train services on Japan's northernmost main island of ...

A sound artist in Japan has captured what may be the last recordings of a vanishing natural event. According to KLOF Mag, ...

Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water with applications ranging from biomedical ...

Several cities in Hokkaido experienced record-high temperatures on Thursday, and Hokkaido Railway has suspended portions of ...

The hydrogels created with insights from machine learning achieved a new level of performance in terms of strength, instant adhesion, and repeatability.

The Kuril Islands and Japan's northern island of Hokkaido were hit by tsunami waves after a magnitude 8.8 undersea earthquake ...

A tsunami advisory was also issued for parts of Alaska and the entire West Coast after a powerful earthquake off Russia's ...

TOKYO: A memorial service to remember the Sakhalin huskies that accompanied Japan's first Antarctic expedition team was held ...

OTARU, Hokkaido--In an apparent "rebellion" at an aquarium here, penguins on a diving platform ignored the instructions of a keeper, who motioned to them to jump into water. They also refused to ...

RAUSU, Hokkaido--Two white killer whales, which are so rare worldwide that they are sometimes referred to as “phantoms,” were spotted off the coast here in Shiretoko Peninsula on June 17.

Hokkaido is a Japanese prefecture and inhabits the second largest of the Japanese islands. It’s north of the main island of Honshu, on which cities like Tokyo and Kyoto are located.