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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A strong earthquake hit eastern areas of Hokkaido Prefecture in the early hours of Saturday, with authorities warning that more could be in story for Japan's northernmost prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/25/japan/hokkaido-earthquake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #earthquakes

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Police searched locations linked to a now-closed zoo in Sapporo over allegations of unauthorized land development. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/japan/police-raid-closed-hokkaido-zoo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #animals #hokkaido #japanesepolice

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Police raid closed Hokkaido zoo for unauthorized land development

As of Oct. 4, 312 animals, including tigers and lions, still remain at the zoo.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Japan reported its first bird flu outbreak of the season at a poultry farm earlier this week, raising concerns that egg prices could rise further. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/japan/science-health/egg-price-concern/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #hokkaido #food

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Japan has detected its first case of bird flu this season at a farm in Hokkaido. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/japan/science-health/hokkaido-bird-flu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #hokkaido #birdflu

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Bird flu season begins in Japan with infection confirmed at Hokkaido farm

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of hens within a 10-kilometer radius.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Warmer ocean temperatures around Hokkaido have led to a sharp decline in autumn salmon populations, significantly tightening supply and pushing prices for the fish and its roe to record highs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/japan/hokkaido-autumn-salmon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #fish #food #supermarkets

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Prices for Hokkaido’s autumn salmon roe jump as catch numbers fall

As of early October, 100 grams of autumn salmon roe in central Sapporo was selling for just under ¥2,000.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

One of Japan’s leading prefectures for offshore wind power is urging authorities to reissue a tender for two critical projects after Mitsubishi Corp. withdrew from the planned developments due to rising costs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/17/akita-new-tenders-offshore-wind/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #emissions #energy #wind #akita #hokkaido #mitsubishi #renewables

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Akita urges quick resale of offshore wind sites after Mitsubishi pulls out

The fledgling offshore wind power industry is grappling with high interest rates and material costs, as well as a pushback against green policies in some countries.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

A book compiling questions submitted to a local library in Hokkaido and answers written by its staff on a bulletin board has become a nationwide hit, with it already being reprinted twice since its March release. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/society/hokkaido-library-answers-students-questions-about-life/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hokkaido #shari #libraries #books #students

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Book offering life tips from Hokkaido library's bulletin board becomes nationwide hit

The library's director said a question box was set up in 2023 to expose teens to diverse ways of thinking 'in today’s social media-centric world.'
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Warming temperatures have helped make the small Hokkaido town of Yoichi the toast of pinot noir connoisseurs, but now climate change could mean that it will become difficult to grow the grapes there. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/hokkaido-grape-farms-affected-by-climate-change/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wine #hokkaido #yoichi #climatechange

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A Japanese pinot noir town blessed by climate change now worries about the weather

Yoichi had its hottest summer since record-keeping began, with average temperatures of 22.1 degrees Celsius between June and August.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

In 2020, Ghost of Tsushima gave life to an oft-overlooked slice of Japanese history. But in the new Ghost of Yotei, familiar samurai action-adventure thrills don’t quite live up to its new setting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/10/11/digital/ghost-of-yotei-review-game-hokkaido-tsushima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #digital #videogames #ghostofyotei #hokkaido #ghostoftsushima #samurai #ainu

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The president of a company in Hokkaido has developed a children's toy resembling an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to reduce the fear associated with using the lifesaving device. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/07/companies/hokkaido-company-aed-toy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #hokkaido #toys #children #aed #health #heartdisease

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Hokkaido company president develops defibrillator toy to promote awareness

The toy sold out soon after going on sale last autumn, but it will be available for purchase again next March.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

In the small town of Kutchan, near the internationally renowned Niseko ski slopes in Japan, a barren field once planted with potatoes has become a flash point for a national conflict over labor, tourism and immigration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/04/japan/society/japan-foreign-workers-ski-resort/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hokkaido #tourism #immigration #jobs

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A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration

Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between labor needs and worries over immigration.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Old World prestige, New World terroir: Domaine de Montille’s vineyard in Hokkaido could redefine Japanese wine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/10/03/food-drink/domaine-de-montille-burgundy-hokkaido-wine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #drinking #wine #alcohol #hokkaido #hakodate

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Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido

Burgundy’s Domaine de Montille has opened a winery in Hakodate — a vote of confidence in the region’s terroir.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Almost six years after Hokkaido’s governor scrapped plans for a casino resort, the prefecture is looking at the possibility of hosting one to boost tourism despite societal and environmental concerns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/japan/hokkaido-casino/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #casinos #gambling

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Fossils unearthed in Hokkaido more than a decade ago have recently been identified as belonging to a new right whale species. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/japan-new-whale-species/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #whales #hokkaido #sapporo

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Fossils unearthed in Hokkaido revealed to be of new whale species

The fossil bones were first discovered by a local citizen along the Toyohira River in Sapporo in October 2008.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A surge in the number of heatstroke patients in Japan this summer was most notable in regions such as Hokkaido and Tohoku, which are typically cooler than the rest of the nation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/heatstroke-cases-rising-in-hokkaido-and-tohoku/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #heatwaves #hokkaido #tohoku #heatstroke

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A memorial service was held Saturday for the victims of an earthquake that killed 44 people in Hokkaido seven years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/06/japan/hokkaido-2018-quake-memorial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #earthquakes

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Large sauries are making a return this season after years of poor, smaller catches of the fish, a delicacy enjoyed in Japan during summer and autumn. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/japan-large-saury-catch/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fish #saury #hokkaido #toyosu

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of about ¥1 million after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/crime-legal/fake-astronaut-scam-japan-elderly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #socialmedia #elderly #japanesepolice #hokkaido

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

The Soviet Union sinking of three Japanese ships near Hokkaido a week after World War II ended was a brutal final act made all the more significant because of one of history's greatest "what if" questions surrounding it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/japan/hokkaido-invasion-soviet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #sovietunion #wwii#rumoi #us

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Can baseball revitalize rural Japan? Five new recruits from the U.S., France and Australia are drumming up excitement and bringing fresh energy to the dairy town of Betsukai, Hokkaido. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/09/01/issues/hokkaido-betsukai-pilot-spirits-baseball/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #baseball #hokkaido #betsukai #hokkaidofrontierleague #betsukaipilotspirits #mitsuruhonma

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