Kushiro is a Japanese city in the state of Kusiro Sub-prefacture, Hokkaido.

Located on Hokkaido, Sapporo is the largest city on the island and the fifth largest in Japan. It hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics, and is also known for its yearly ...

The 2008 G8 summit is scheduled for July 7 - 9, in Toyako, a resort near Hokkaido, Japan.

Yu Darvish is a Japanese baseball player currently playing with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. He has broken the record for the highest paid Japanese player and is rumored to ...

Hakodate is a Japanese port city and capital of the subprefecture of Oshima on the island of Hokkaido. It is the island's third largest city following Sapporo and Asahikawa ...

The Idiot (Japan: Hakuchi) is a 1951 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, written by Akira Kurosawa and Eijiro Hisaita, based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky starring Setsuko Hara, Masayuki ...

Oyashio (親潮?), also known as Oya Siwo or the Kurile current, is a cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise in the western North Pacific Ocean. It ...

Olympic speed skating, or long-track speed skating, is one of two varieties of the sport held at the Olympics alongside short track. Whereas short-track skating occurs on a standard ice ...