A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of Japan's Hokkaido island. The tremors occurred at 4:37 AM Eastern Time, as reported by the Japan Meteorological ...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Japan's Hokkaido island. - The ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Hokkaido in Japan on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said, adding that it hit at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the prefectural capital of Sapporo, a city of 1.9 million ... an emergency shutdown of the main thermal power plant at Tomato-Atsuma that supplies half of Hokkaido's electricity.

And while the attention for both is well deserved, there’s so much more to the country than those two spotlight-grabbing cities. Enter Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands.

and Hokkaido's first TV tower. This time on Journeys in Japan, we glimpse this fascinating city through its architecture. Sapporo TV Tower stands over Odori Park. You can enjoy a panoramic view of ...

The new Hokkaido Shinkansen travels the 825 km (513 miles) from Tokyo to near Hakodate, Hokkaido’s southern port city, in just over ... Japan’s main island. The futuristic, needle-nosed ...

(Mainichi/Haruka Ito) OTARU, Hokkaido -- This northern Japanese city implemented new measures on Jan. 28 to address repeated instances of disruptive behavior by foreign tourists. Otaru, one of ...

On Friday, June 18, a brown bear ran through a neighborhood in the biggest city on the island of Hokkaido, invaded a military base, then an airport, and mauled four passers-by before being shot dead ...

A "monster wolf" robot with flashing red eyes and fangs bared is seen ready to threaten off bears in a residential part of the city of Takikawa in Hokkaido. (Mainichi/Hiroto Watanabe) TAKIKAWA ...