NEMURO, Hokkaido—A “higuma” brown bear was caught on video attacking a light truck on a forest road here on April 28. The driver, in his 50s, was on his way to pick wild vegetables when the ...

RAUSU, Hokkaido--Town officials on Feb. 7 lost sight ... part of a pod of about 20 that had been migrating through the Nemuro Strait for several days. Rescuing the trapped animals is extremely ...

HOKKAIDO (TR) – An elderly man with a knife broke into a government office in Nemuro City on Thursday. After police arrested ...

Seafood manufacturer Kaneyoshi is based in the Hokkaido city of Nemuro and has been focusing on the production of retort-packed saury. The city lands the largest catch of the fish in Japan ...

In 2006, Samson Miyamoto, a toy store owner in Nemuro, Hokkaido, founded "New Nemuro Pro Wrestling" to promote his love of wrestling and revitalize his hometown. His wrestlers were local customers ...

Hokkaido prefectural official Hiroki Mori says ... The Chishima Trench has been the location of numerous quakes There was one off the Nemuro peninsula in 1973. In 2003, a magnitude 8.0 quake ...