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Kelp harvesting season begins in Hokkaido

Harvested kelp is unloaded from a fishing vessel at a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 1, 2026. Japanese fishing vessels started harvesting the seaweed the same day in waters around Kaigara Island of the Russian-held Habomai islet group off Nemuro Peninsula as this year's harvesting season began.

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Kelp harvesting season begins in Hokkaido

Japanese fishing vessels harvest kelp in waters around Kaigara Island of the Russian-held Habomai islet group off Nemuro Peninsula in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 1, 2026. The vessels started harvesting the seaweed in the waters the same day as this year's harvesting season began.

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Kelp harvesting season begins in Hokkaido

Fishing industry officials wave to vessels as they depart from a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 1, 2026, to harvest kelp in waters around Kaigara Island of the Russian-held Habomai islet group off Nemuro Peninsula. Japanese fishing vessels started harvesting the seaweed in the waters the same day as this year's harvesting season began.

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Mother sea otter feeds pup off northern Japan

KUSHIRO, Japan - A mother sea otter breast-feeds her pup off the Nemuro Peninsula in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Nov. 11, 2014.

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Sea otter family off Hokkaido, northern Japan

KUSHIRO, Japan - A mother sea otter grooms her pup off the Nemuro Peninsula in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Nov. 11, 2014.

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Preserving facility for Nemuro-Kunashiri submarine cable

KUSHIRO, Japan - A now-defunct facility in Nemuro, Hokkaido, for a submarine communications cable, which used to connect the Nemuro Peninsula and Kunashiri, one of the four Russian-controlled and Japanese-claimed islands off Japan's northernmost main island, is seen in May 2014 (upper frame) and on Aug. 12, 2014 (lower frame). The lower shows work underway to preserve the facility.

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Russia hands drifted Japanese student over to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - Keisuke Kuriyama, a medical student of the University of the Ryukyus, meets reporters at Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Aug. 25, 2011, shortly after arriving there aboard a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship. Kuriyama was detained by the Russian authorities for an alleged unauthorized trip to one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan after his rubber raft drifted away from Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula, and was later handed over to the Japanese authorities.

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Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16.

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Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island (arrowed) off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16.

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Around the border

The Soviet-Japanese agreement allows us to fish in the Habomai Islands. In the Lee Line, we fished under the fear of capture. In Okinawa, there is an island inside a base. 　 Habomai Islands on the Nemuro Peninsula at the eastern end of Hokkaido, fishing boats departing, fishing boats entering Soviet waters, Soviet surveillance boat (June 22, 1962), family left behind after being captured, boats returning from fishing, drying kelp, fishing grounds on the Li Line, fishing, landing large quantities of fish, U.S. base in Okinawa, farming U.S. base in Okinawa, farming, sugar cane production, drought, people tilling the soil, miscellaneous street vendors, Naha's Kokusai Street, show windows, women dancing traditional dances, foreigners walking along Kokusai Street, children playing in the sea. Date of shooting unknown, release date: August 16, 1963.

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Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16. (Kyodo)

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Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

SAPPORO, Japan - A file photo taken on Nov. 14, 2005 shows the waters near Kaigara Island (arrowed) off the Nemuro Peninsula on the eastern tip of Hokkaido, where a man on a Japanese crab fishing boat was shot dead by a Russian border patrol unit on Aug. 16. (Kyodo)

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Russia hands drifted Japanese student over to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - Keisuke Kuriyama, a medical student of the University of the Ryukyus, meets reporters at Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Aug. 25, 2011, shortly after arriving there aboard a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship. Kuriyama was detained by the Russian authorities for an alleged unauthorized trip to one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan after his rubber raft drifted away from Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula, and was later handed over to the Japanese authorities. (Kyodo)

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Sea otter family off Hokkaido, northern Japan

KUSHIRO, Japan - A mother sea otter grooms her pup off the Nemuro Peninsula in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Nov. 11, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Preserving facility for Nemuro-Kunashiri submarine cable

KUSHIRO, Japan - A now-defunct facility in Nemuro, Hokkaido, for a submarine communications cable, which used to connect the Nemuro Peninsula and Kunashiri, one of the four Russian-controlled and Japanese-claimed islands off Japan's northernmost main island, is seen in May 2014 (upper frame) and on Aug. 12, 2014 (lower frame). The lower shows work underway to preserve the facility. (Kyodo)