TOKYO (Sputnik) - A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, the country's Meteorological Agency said on Friday.
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia) (Sputnik) – Russia is going to prove cost-effectiveness of construction of a bridge between the Russian island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev told reporters on Thursday adding that the work on the issue would be difficult.
TOKYO (Sputnik) - Death toll from a major earthquake on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has increased to 21 people, while 13 people have been missing after the earthquake, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday.
TOKYO (Sputnik) - The death toll from a major earthquake on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has increased to 16 people, local media reported, citing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
According to Kyodo News, the number of people reported as injured by the powerful earthquake on the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan has increased to 290 people.
The former parliamentarian noted that this project would be more important than the proposed construction of a transport bridge between the islands.
The Japanese government has cautioned that an earthquake to rival even the disastrous 2011 Tohoku earthquake that led to 18,000 deaths may strike the island of Hokkaido sometime within the next 30 years.
Japan rescues dozen of North Korean fishermen, whose vessels wash up on its coast annually.
The first ever missile evacuation drill was held on Friday in the city of Takikawa on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido after the recent North Korea’s missile test, local media reported.
US troops deployed to Japan have used MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in joint military exercises on the Asian nation's Hokkaido island for the first time since the crash of an Osprey on August 5, local media reported Friday.
Three US Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft have arrived at the Misawa Air Base, located near Japan's northernmost Hokkaido Island, to take part in the joint US-Japan military exercise amid local residents' concerns with aircraft's safety, local media reported Wednesday.
Jhe Japan Meteorological agency reported that a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's northernmost Hokkaido island.
A LR-2 reconnaissance aircraft from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has crashed on the Hokkaido Island with 10 people suspected on board, local media reported Monday.
Japanese snack food maker Calbee announced a temporary halt of production of their popular pizza-flavored chips as well as 14 other flavors as a result of a potato shortage in Japan, and overnight the online price of Calbee pizza-flavored chips ballooned from around 200 yen ($1.84) to 1,250 yen ($11.51).
Those sheep that preform moderate physical activity in winter have better fertility and easier lamb delivery, specialists from Japan’s Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center revealed.
Japanese government considered launching of visa-free flights between the country's northernmost main island of Hokkaido to the Southern Kurils for Japanese residents of the islands and their relatives, local media reported Monday.
President Putin's visit to Japan earlier this month is bearing fruit. With Japan's industrial economy hungry for energy supplies, Russia may begin to supply the Asian nation with electricity, and soon.
Around 6,000 people were forced to stay at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido for two nights since Thursday due to heavy snowfall and squall wind, local media reported on Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks on Thursday in Japan, which, according to Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov, may result in the announcement of joint economic projects on Kuril Islands.