In ordinary years with the arrival of summer, sperm whales have replaced orca pods among cetacean species seen in the Nemuro Strait off this town on the Shiretoko Peninsula, a UNESCO World ...

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 ...

We always have to be prepared for a possible quake." 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 ...

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