Japan's Environment Ministry says seal carcasses in the country's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido have tested positive ...

NEMURO, Hokkaido--Bird watchers here might have thought they had been magically transported across the Pacific when they spotted the national symbol of the United States here in a wetland.

MUKAWA, Hokkaido--Fossils unearthed here are likely of an unknown dinosaur species that was an ancestor of birds, Hokkaido University and the town of Mukawa announced on Jan. 6. The fossilized ...

NEMURO, Hokkaido -- A solar energy company planning ... who has been studying birds of prey in the area since 2013, remarked, "There are multiple nests within the proposed project site, and ...

Photo provided by Professor Sakoda Yoshihiro at Hokkaido University. Sakoda was struck by Komatsu's concerns. "At the time, we did not have the tools to save the infected birds proactively," he ...

HOKKAIDO – The first man slips on a bright green frog hat and, one by one, the rest of the five middle-aged singers follow suit. Then it begins: He croaks out a low baritone tune, the next man ...