Now, a project for building a cellphone base station at Cape Shiretoko, which lies at the heart of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage site of Shiretoko, has been put on hold for several months.

RAUSU, Hokkaido—Salmon are at the peak of their upstream migration in the rivers of the eastern Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido. Salmon spend three to five years feeding and growing in the open ...

The images offer a glimpse of April 23, 2022 — the day the Kazu I tour boat sank off Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula with 26 ...

A new long-distance hiking trail in Japan will take trekkers through some of the nation's most beautiful, unspoiled nature.

The Shiretoko Peninsula, located in eastern Hokkaido Prefecture, juts into the Sea of Okhotsk. Its center is lined by 1,500-meter peaks. The heavily forested area is home to a diverse group of ...

Sucker Punch is also inspired by Shiretoko National Park, a location that contains both beauty and danger. The announcement ...

and in 2005 was designated as a World Natural Heritage Site.

The Shiretoko Peninsula is a spectacular place. It sticks far out into the northern Pacific, covered in densely forested mountains with waterfalls that cascade off high cliffs straight into the ocean.

But in summer, Hokkaido is where you can see Japan at its wildest and most elegant. On the north-eastern peninsula, Shiretoko National Park is one of the top unspoilt natural environments in Japan.

While most tourists flock to a beach for warmth, in a bizarre part of Japan you can swap your bathing suit for a parka and ...

NEW YORK (WPIX/NEXSTAR/WGN) – Two Chicagoland schools are among the nearly 200 schools across the country that received shipments of ready-to-eat meat products that have been recalled over ...