People in the Tokyo area especially may have noticed a recent influx in Hokkaido food fairs over the past year. These events, held within department stores, give Hokkaido’s local food producers a ...

A well-known Japanese brewery and a renowned chef's new restaurant will be serving food and drink from Hokkaido, a northern island in Japan, in New York City for the first time. Hokkaido Brewery and ...

The prices for marine products from Hokkaido halved following China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports, according to the region’s government. Retail prices of premium seafood such as flatfish ...

For a Hokkaido food trip, the town of Wakkanai at the very northernmost tip of the island would not seem an obvious jumping-off point. Most visitors prefer to start in Sapporo, exploring the city’s ...

“Nice to meet you” is the English translation of Yoroshiku, and it was very nice to finally make its acquaintance. When Keisuke Kobayashi opened his Wallingford restaurant in 2012, the name over the ...

SINGAPORE - (THE BUSINESS TIMES) Tanjong Pagar Road somehow strikes us as a Statue of Liberty for homeless entrepreneurs. You can almost hear it saying, "Bring me your bridal services; Korean fried ...

Discover the best things to do in Sapporo – from scenic parks and historic landmarks to top attractions, shopping streets, ...

Belatedly boning up on Japanese table manners, I discovered that I had unwittingly broken several etiquette rules on my visits to Bellevue’s Hokkaido Ramen Santouka, a noodle shop new to the Northwest ...

If there’s one destination good skiers want to visit at least once in their lifetime it’s the powder snow paradise of Hokkaido, Japan. The island is as far north as you can go in the country, at its ...