Hokkaido
(2002 est. pop. 5.7 million). Hokkaido, the northernmost and second largest of Japan's four main islands (83,519 square kilometers, including the 5,010 square kilometers of the Japanes...
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Northern Territories
(2001 est. pop. 29,000). The Northern Territories are a group of islands in the Kurile chain north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Historically the islands and the island of S...
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Hokkaido on Tuesday began to consider requesting the central
government for a special measure allowing the regional government to
set a lower taxation rate for gasoline blended with bioethano...
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(EDS: ADDING COMPANY'S EXPANDED PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN 4TH-5TH GRAFS)
Hokkaido Gov. Harumi Takahashi on Wednesday criticized Hokkaido
Electric Power Co. for failing to prevent a series of bla...
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A small fire occurred Tuesday at the No. 3 reactor building now
under construction at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari plant at a
time when police have been investigating three blazes the...
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(EDS: OPERATION SET TO START AROUND 9:20 A.M.)
Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) will on Saturday begin
commercially operating its Dual-Mode Vehicle, a minibus with
retractable train wheels...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH START OF DMV OPERATIONS)
Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) on Saturday began
commercially operating its Dual-Mode Vehicle, a minibus with
retractable train wheels for us...
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Former tunnel construction workers stricken by lung disease
after working on state-ordered projects reached a settlement Thursday
with the state at courts in Fukuoka Prefecture and Hokkaido, ...
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A new pilgrimage circuit, opened in May in Hokkaido, is hoping
to follow in the footsteps of Japan's famous 88-temple pilgrimage on
Shikoku Island in attracting tourists to the northernmost p...
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Police plan to search Meat Hope Co., a meat-processing company
in Hokkaido embroiled in a ground beef mislabeling scam, on Sunday on
suspicion of violating the unfair competition prevention l...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH FRESH INFO)
Rescue workers found four veteran climbers Saturday on a
Hokkaido mountain hit by an avalanche the previous day, but all of
them were confirmed dead, police s...
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(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING INFO)
Four veteran climbers were confirmed dead Saturday after they
were hit by an avalanche the previous day on a Hokkaido mountain,
police said.
They were identi...
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Hokkaido
Hokkaido mulls tax relief for gasoline blended with bioethanol
