Northern Japan region pitches in certified wood for Olympic stadium

Northern Japan region pitches in certified wood for Olympic stadium

Photo taken in October 2014 in Mombetsu, Hokkaido, shows a privately owned wooded area, which has been certified for environmental conservation and sustainable management, in the Okhotsk area in the northernmost Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a capsized Japanese fishing boat drifting about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu in Hokkaido after colliding with a Russian vessel. The five-crew-member Hokko Maru No. 8 belonging to a fishery cooperative in Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs at the time of the accident, which left three dead.

3 dead in Japanese fishing boat collision with Russian ship

3 dead in Japanese fishing boat collision with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a capsized Japanese fishing boat (top) drifting about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu in Hokkaido after colliding with a Russian vessel. The five-crew-member Hokko Maru No. 8 belonging to a fishery cooperative in Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs at the time of the accident, which left three dead.

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows the Russian vessel Amur after colliding with a Japanese fishing boat in the Sea of Okhotsk about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu in Japan's Hokkaido. The five-crew-member Japanese fishing boat which was catching hairy crabs capsized after the collision, leaving three dead.

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a capsized Japanese fishing boat drifting about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido after colliding with a Russian vessel. The five-crew-member boat belonging to a fishery cooperative in Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs at the time of the accident, which left three dead.

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a Russian vessel after colliding with a Japanese fishing boat in the Sea of Okhotsk about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido. The five-crew-member Japanese fishing boat which was catching hairy crabs capsized after the collision, leaving three dead.

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a capsized Japanese fishing boat drifting about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido after colliding with a Russian vessel. The five-crew-member boat belonging to a fishery cooperative in Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs at the time of the accident, which left three dead.

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

3 dead after Japanese fishing boat collides with Russian ship

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 26, 2021, shows a capsized Japanese fishing boat drifting about 20 kilometers northeast of Mombetsu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido after colliding with a Russian vessel. The five-crew-member boat belonging to a fishery cooperative in Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs at the time of the accident, which left three dead.

Ainu indigenous people's ritual

Ainu indigenous people's ritual

Members of an Ainu cultural preservation body hold a ritual on Sept. 5, 2020, to celebrate the arrival of the year's salmon season in Mombetsu, northern Japan. The indigenous people in Hokkaido dedicate salmon to the river god in the ritual.

Ainu indigenous people's ritual

Ainu indigenous people's ritual

Members of an Ainu cultural preservation body hold a ritual on Sept. 5, 2020, to celebrate the arrival of the year's salmon season in Mombetsu, northern Japan. The indigenous people in Hokkaido dedicate salmon to the river god in the ritual.

Ainu ceremony in Hokkaido

Ainu ceremony in Hokkaido

People perform a traditional Ainu ceremony, praying and offering food and alcohol to gods and ancestors, in Mombetsu, northern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2019. The Ainu are an indigenous people mainly in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ainu ceremony in Hokkaido

Ainu ceremony in Hokkaido

People perform a traditional Ainu ceremony, praying and offering food and alcohol to gods and ancestors, in Mombetsu, northern Japan, on Aug. 31, 2019. The Ainu are an indigenous people mainly in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Foreign trainees in Japan

Foreign trainees in Japan

Photo taken on July 13, 2016, shows foreign trainees taking scallops out of their shells at a factory in Mombetsu in Hokkaido, northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hokkaido tourism industry luring Taiwanese

Hokkaido tourism industry luring Taiwanese

SAPPORO, Japan - Pictured is a Taiwanese-language brochure produced by a tourism association in the city of Abashiri, Hokkaido, aimed at luring more Taiwanese tourists to see ice floes on the Sea of Okhotsk. Although no such tourists are registered as having viewed the floes through 1997, some 2,600 Taiwanese visited the northern Hokkaido area, including Mombetsu City, in 1998, followed by 5,500 in 1999. Abashiri and Mombetsu are famous for their ice floes in winter.