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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.