TOKYO - Sea urchin and salmon are dying en masse off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido because of the "red tide", driving up retail prices nationwide and jeopardising the peak autumn fishing season. The ...

TOKYO -- Unexpectedly large numbers of Pacific bluefin tuna have been winding up in nets set off Hokkaido, raising concerns that Japan will exceed its quota for the endangered fish. The prized fish ...

A frosty wind was blowing in from the Sea of Japan at the Suttsu fishing port in Hokkaido in late November. There, catching anglerfish with a grim look on his face was 77-year-old fisherman Kyozo ...

The smelt fishing season is underway at Onuma Quasi-National Park in Nanae Town, Hokkaido – an activity that has almost a century of history behind it. In the first catch, fish size appears to have ...

We meet at midday in the hamlet of Akanko Onsen in Hokkaido and pile into Shigeru (Dameon) Takada's Honda Insight, a hybrid vehicle that he drives like a race car along a gravel road that leads to a ...

A body was found Thursday off the coast of Hokkaido, local police said, saying it was a 54-year-old man who fell into the sea while fishing. The man fell into the sea at a port in Obira in ...

TOKYO - A Japanese fishing boat on Wednesday collided with a Russian vessel off Japan's northern Hokkaido prefecture, local media quoted the Japanese coast guard as saying. The Japanese fishing boat ...

TOKYO -- Unexpectedly large numbers of Pacific bluefin tuna have been winding up in nets set off Hokkaido, raising concerns that Japan will exceed its quota for the endangered fish.