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BOJ deputy governor in Hokkaido

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino makes a speech in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 2, 2025.

Hokkaido Bank opens office in Vladivostok, Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Yoshihiro Sekihachi (L), president of the Hokkaido Bank Ltd., attends a ceremony for the opening of the Sapporo-based bank's representative office in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on March 18, 2014.

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Fox family in Hokkaido

TAKIKAWA, Japan - Photo shows a northern fox and cubs on a river bank in Takikawa, Hokkaido, on May 18, 2013.

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Fox family in Hokkaido

TAKIKAWA, Japan - Photo shows a northern fox and cubs on a river bank in Takikawa, Hokkaido, on May 18, 2013.

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Animals in Shiretoko

SAPPORO, Japan - A northern fox appears from a bank by a snow-covered road on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 4, 2013.

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Yunus receives honorary doctorate from Hokkaido Univ.

SAPPORO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is awarded an honorary doctorate from Hokkaido University in Sapporo on Sept. 29, 2009.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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16 major CO2 emitters end meeting in Hokkaido

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of 16 major greenhouse gas emitters and representatives from international organizations pose for photos after their meeting at the Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido on July 9. (From L to R) are IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. (Pool photo)

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World Bank chief says G-8 facing 'test' it can't afford to fail

RUSUTSU, Japan - World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon attend a news conference in Rusutsu, Hokkaido, on July 7. Zoellick said that the international community is facing a double danger of escalating fuel and food prices, urging leaders at the Group of Eight summit to move toward strong action to help save the most vulnerable.

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G-8 summit: G-8 leaders pose for commemorative photo

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of the Group of Eight nations and other invited participants pose for a commemorative photo on July 7, the opening day of the three-day G-8 summit at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toya, Hokkaido. From L to R: U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ghana's President John Kufuor, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, U.S. President George W. Bush, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. (Pool photo)

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Asset-based lending extends to prized meat cows

MORIOKA, Japan - Kita-Nippon Bank, a regional lender based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, has started taking prized Maezawa meat cows as collateral for the so-called asset-based lending to cattle farmers in the prefecture. A loan-taker is required to send a monthly report to the bank on the condition of the cows, which are tagged in both ears for the bank to track of their health and market value. According to Kita-Nippon Bank, similar asset-based lending is extended to cattle farmers in Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido.

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Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to devise merger schedule in Aug.

TOKYO, July 15 Kyodo - Hokkaido Bank President Yoshihiro Sekihachi (L) and Hokuriku Bank President Shigeo Takagi (R) post at the start of a joint committee meeting to prepare for the planned integration of their two banks. They agreed to devise a specific schedule in August for their integration under a joint holding company.

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(1)Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to merge in FY 2004

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Bank President Tsuneo Fujita speaks at a news conference at his office in Sapporo on May on an agreement with Hokuriku Bank to integrate their businesses under a joint holding company in fiscal 2004. The merger will creatie Japan's second largest regional bank in terms of deposits after the Bank of Yokohama.

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(2)Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to merge in FY 2004

TOYAMA, Japan - Hokuriku Bank President Shigeo Takagi gives a press conference at his office in Toyama on May 23 on an agreement with Hokkaido Bank to integrate their businesses under a joint holding company in fiscal 2004. The merger will create Japan's second largest regional bank in terms of deposits after the Bank of Yokohama.

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(2)Ex-Takugin presidents acquitted over shady loans

SAPPORO, Japan - Sadamasa Kawatani, former president of failed Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, is surrounded by reporters after the Sapporo District Court on Feb. 27 acquitted him in a case involving the bank's shady loans to a local business group.

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Bank of Japan to close Kitakyushu, Otaru branches

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken Oct. 4, shows the Bank of Japan's Kitakyushu branch in Fukuoka Prefecture, which the central bank plans to close along with its Otaru branch in Hokkaido as part of government efforts to streamline the bank's operations. The proposed closures, earmarked for 2001, are the first since the central bank was founded in 1882, and will reduce the number of BOJ main branches in Japan to 31.

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Curling: Loco Solare team reaches final Olympic qualifying event

The Loco Solare women's curling team celebrates after winning the best-of-five series against the Hokkaido Bank team on Sept. 12, 2021, in the Hokkaido city of Wakkanai, northern Japan, advancing to the final qualifying tournament in December in the Netherlands for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. (Pool photo)

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Curling: Loco Solare team reaches final Olympic qualifying event

The Loco Solare team's Satsuki Fujisawa (C) delivers a shot during Game 5 of the best-of-five women's curling series against the Hokkaido Bank team on Sept. 12, 2021, in the Hokkaido city of Wakkanai, northern Japan. (Pool photo)

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Curling: Loco Solare team reaches final Olympic qualifying event

The Loco Solare women's curling team celebrates after winning the best-of-five series against the Hokkaido Bank team on Sept. 12, 2021, in the Hokkaido city of Wakkanai, northern Japan, advancing to the final qualifying tournament in December in the Netherlands for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. (Pool photo)

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(2)Hokuriku Bank, Hokkaido Bank to merge in FY 2004

TOYAMA, Japan - Hokuriku Bank President Shigeo Takagi gives a press conference at his office in Toyama on May 23 on an agreement with Hokkaido Bank to integrate their businesses under a joint holding company in fiscal 2004. The merger will create Japan's second largest regional bank in terms of deposits after the Bank of Yokohama. (Kyodo)

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Aerial video of Lake Okotampe, Chitose City

Lake Okhotampe, located west of Chitose City, Hokkaido, is one of the three most secret lakes in Hokkaido. The beautiful cobalt blue surface of the lake can be seen from above. Permission has been granted to the relevant authorities for drone photography

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Hokkaido bank, Beijing's investment body seal deal

Vice President Masahiro Sasahara of Hokkaido Bank (L) shakes hands with Zhao Xin Xin, deputy director of the Beijing Investment Promotion Bureau, in Sapporo on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 15, 2015, after concluding a bilateral economic cooperation agreement, the first such deal for a Japanese regional bank. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese bank turned into art museum on Russia's Sakhalin Island

Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2015, shows a former branch of now-defunct Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Ltd. that has been turned into the Sakhalin Art Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yunus receives honorary doctorate from Hokkaido Univ.

SAPPORO, Japan - Muhammad Yunus (L), founder of the Grameen Bank and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is awarded an honorary doctorate from Hokkaido University in Sapporo on Sept. 29, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945. (Kyodo)

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Ex-bankers sentenced to prison terms over bad loans

SAPPORO, Japan - The Sapporo High Court sentenced Hiroshi Yamauchi (L in file photo) and Sadamasa Kawatani (C), two former Hokkaido Takushoku Bank presidents, to two-and-a-half years in prison each on Aug. 31 for irresponsibly extending loans that led to the Sapporo-based bank's collapse in 1997. Yoichi Nakamura (R), the former head of a Sapporo-based resort hotel developer, received 18 months in prison. (Kyodo)

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16 major CO2 emitters end meeting in Hokkaido

TOYAKO, Japan - Leaders of 16 major greenhouse gas emitters and representatives from international organizations pose for photos after their meeting at the Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido on July 9. (From L to R) are IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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World Bank chief says G-8 facing 'test' it can't afford to fail

RUSUTSU, Japan - World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon attend a news conference in Rusutsu, Hokkaido, on July 7. Zoellick said that the international community is facing a double danger of escalating fuel and food prices, urging leaders at the Group of Eight summit to move toward strong action to help save the most vulnerable. (Kyodo)

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Asset-based lending extends to prized meat cows

MORIOKA, Japan - Kita-Nippon Bank, a regional lender based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, has started taking prized Maezawa meat cows as collateral for the so-called asset-based lending to cattle farmers in the prefecture. A loan-taker is required to send a monthly report to the bank on the condition of the cows, which are tagged in both ears for the bank to track of their health and market value. According to Kita-Nippon Bank, similar asset-based lending is extended to cattle farmers in Shiga Prefecture and Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Kazutoshi Narita in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Gault&Millau.

Granvista Hotel & Resort, Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) has developed four types of sweets in collaboration with Gault & Millau, the world's leading gastronomic guide, for the first time. The sweets are available at the Sapporo Grand Hotel and Sapporo Park Hotel operated by the company for a limited time in November 2018. At the press conference, he took the stage for a talk session. Left: Editor-in-Chief of Gault&Millau. Right: Mr. Kazutoshi Narita, winner of the 2017 Asia's Best Pastry Chef Award, the most high-profile individual award in the Asia category of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, a restaurant ranking that influences global food trends. Mr. Narita

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JR Naebo Station South Exit

South exit of Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate Line and Chitose Line in Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.

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JR Naebo Station Passage

A passageway connecting north and south at Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate Line and Chitose Line in Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.

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JR Naebo Station

The ticket gate of Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate Line and Chitose Line in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

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Naebo Station Aerial Walkway

An aerial walkway to be created in March 2021 as part of the redevelopment of Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate and Chitose lines.

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Naebo Station

New station building of Naebo Station of JR Hakodate Line and Chitose Line in Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.

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THE GRAN ALT SAPPORO

Condominiums created in the redevelopment of the north exit of Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate and Chitose Lines, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.

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Naebo Station Aerial Walkway

An aerial walkway to be created in March 2021 as part of the redevelopment of Naebo Station on the JR Hakodate and Chitose lines. View of the Ario Sapporo side

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