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The prices for marine products from Hokkaido halved following China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports, according to the region’s government.

The value of donations under the furusato nōzei (hometown tax donation) system rose by about 20% from the previous year to ¥965.4 billion.

Japan’s northernmost, second-largest island is one of the country’s wildest destinations. From admiring the drift ice to seeing the iconic red-crowned crane in its home turf, we round up some of the best activities that showcase its natural diversity.

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SHARI, Hokkaido--Drift ice moving south in the Sea of Okhotsk reached the coast of the scenic Shiretoko Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido on Feb. 2, according to the Shiretoko National Park Nature Center here.

The hometown tax program, designed to help struggling rural communities, left 27 percent of all local governments in the red in fiscal 2021, a study by The Asahi Shimbun showed.

Nearly 60% of the country’s businesses report that they have no plan for their future ownership.

An owner’s struggle in Japan’s northern dairy region illuminates one of the potentially devastating economic impacts of an aging society.

According to the Hokkaido Electric Power Company, nearly 13,500 houses were left without electricity in the city of Mombetsu, about 3,000 houses in the city of Omu and some 2,6000 more houses in the city of Okoppe, the report said.