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Sunken Kazu I tour boat had nonregulation radio

The company that operated the Kazu I sightseeing boat that sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido with 26 people aboard was using a ham radio -- instead of a professional radio as called for by its own safety manual -- to communicate with the ship, and the operator had…

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Missing tourist boat found underwater off Hokkaido

A tourist boat that went missing six days ago off Hokkaido was found underwater on Friday, the Japan Coast Guard said, as 12 of the 26 people aboard remained unaccounted for.

Bangkok Post

Ten People from Missing Japanese Boat Confirmed Dead

Ten people found so far from a Japanese tour boat missing off the country's northern coast have been confirmed dead, the coast guard said on Sunday. The boat went missing on Saturday with 26 people on board during a cruise off the main northern island of Hokkaido. Of the 10,…

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9 people from stricken tour boat off Hokkaido found, 8 unresponsive

SAPPORO: Ten people were confirmed dead Sunday after a tourist boat with a total of 26 passengers and crew aboard went missing in rough waters the previous day off a World Heritage site on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the country's coast guard said.

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Japan tourist boat 'sinks' with 26 people aboard missing for hours after 'distress call'

The 19-ton Kazu1 was travelling off the western coast of Shiretoko Peninsula, in the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan, on Saturday afternoon when it sent a distress call

Daily Mirror

Tour boat with 26 aboard loses contact off Hokkaido

A tourist boat with 26 crew and passengers including two children went missing on Saturday while on a tour around the scenic Shiretoko Peninsula on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the Japan Coast Guard said.

Bangkok Post

Japan intensifies search for missing tour boat with 26 on board

Japan's coast guard used aircraft and patrol boats on Saturday to search for a tour boat with 26 people on board after it sent word it was in trouble off the northern island of Hokkaido, a coast guard official said.

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For Japanese fishing town of Nemuro, Moscow holds key to survival

Japanese fisherman Tsuruyuki Hansaku was barely out of high school when he served 10 months in a Soviet prison, arrested at sea on his father's boat for catching cod in what the Russians considered their territory.

Reuters

Prefectures welcome expansion of travel discount program

The government's tourism support program, a pandemic economy-boosting measure which had been limited to travel by residents within a prefecture or to neighboring prefectures, was expanded to regional blocs such as the Hokkaido, Tohoku and Kanto regions starting April 1.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

'Local' specialties on the move due to global warming

As a fruit normally found in the subtropics grows in Tokyo, peaches are cultivated in Aomori, the prefecture known as "the apple kingdom."

The Japan News/Yomiuri

[UPDATE] Lexus LC Hokkaido Edition Debuts With Volcano-Inspired Styling

In Europe, Lexus will offer 40 coupes and 40 convertibles of this special edition.

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A delicious chill

Work to dry Pacific cod in cold outdoor weather is fully underway in Wakkanai, Hokkaido. A local specialty called bodara is made by drying cod both indoors and outdoors, exposing it to cold winds and sunlight from autumn to spring until there is no moisture left inside. The fish shrinks…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ice-breaking pleasure boat opens up a route through drifting slabs of ice in Hokkaido

An ice-breaking pleasure boat opens up a route through drifting slabs of ice about 4 kilometers off the coast of Monbetsu, Hokkaido, on Saturday. Hokkaido has been hit by records snowfalls this winter, but on the day, the temperature climbed steadily thanks to warm winds from the south. Passengers on…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Hokkaido fisherfolk benefit from shift in Japanese yellowtail fishing grounds

Japanese yellowtail fishing grounds have undergone a dramatic shift in recent years. Hokkaido, which previously registered next to no catches, registered the nation's largest annual yellowtail haul in 2020, while Toyama and Niigata prefectures, traditionally known for their winter yellowtail, continue to register poor catches.

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Northernmost Hokkaido city cheers on curling Olympians

WAKKANAI, Hokkaido -- Loco Solare, Japan's national women's curling team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, frequently visited Hokkaido's northernmost city of Wakkanai for training camps and curling events.

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Sweet Hokkaido cabbages get sweeter with snow

Farmers dig cabbages out from the snow in Wassamu, Hokkaido, to prepare shipments of the town's specialty food. The cabbages were harvested last autumn and laid out in a field to be buried under the snow. After fresh powder covers the vegetables and the outside temperature falls below freezing, the…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Cold as ice

Illuminated ice sculptures create a fantastical atmosphere in extremely cold weather at the Ice Fall Festival in Kamikawa, Hokkaido. Visitors have their temperature checked at the entrance to the venue, which contains 30 sculptures of various sizes, each reminiscent of a frozen waterfall. "I came to the nearby Sounkyo district…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Decommissioned sleeper train to reopen as Hokkaido guesthouse

HOKUTO, Hokkaido -- Luxury sleeper train, the Hokutosei, is set to welcome customers again -- this time as a guesthouse. The popular train was decommissioned in 2015, but will get a new lease on life when it opens late April in Hokuto, Hokkaido.

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Government adds 18 prefectures to quasi-emergency list

The quasi-emergency measures to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus will be applied to 18 more prefectures, including Hokkaido, Osaka, and Fukuoka, the government decided Tuesday.

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Tokyo, 12 other prefectures under quasi-emergency priority measures

Tokyo and 12 other prefectures are now under quasi-emergency priority measures, effective from Friday, to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Soon, Osaka and Hokkaido will be among the eight other prefectures expected to join them.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Pregnant horses at Hokkaido breeding center run for winter exercise

Pregnant farm horses run in a snow-covered field at the National Livestock Breeding Center's Tokachi Station in Otofuke, in eastern Hokkaido, on Monday. Some of the horses weigh as much as 1 ton. Runs are conducted to have the animals exercise in the winter. The pregnant horses, among some 160…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Red crown cranes walk amid dreamlike mist lingering over Hokkaido river

Red crown cranes, a nationally protected species, walk and flutter their wings in the Setsuri River in Hokkaido's Tsurui village, which recorded a temperature of minus 18.6 C on Thursday. The difference in the air and water temperatures creates a dreamlike mist over the river. The cranes nest along the…

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