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Saury fishing season begins in Hokkaido

The first saury catch of the season is landed at a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 15, 2025.

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Saury fishing season begins in Hokkaido

The first saury catch of the season is landed at a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 15, 2025.

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Saury fishing season begins in Hokkaido

Saury are landed for the first time of season at a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 16, 2024.

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Saury fishing season begins in Hokkaido

Saury are landed for the first time of season at a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 16, 2024.

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Kelp harvesting season

Japanese fishing vessels depart from a port in Nemuro on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on June 15, 2024, heading to waters around Kaigara Island of the Russian-held Habomai islet group as this year's kelp harvesting season begins.

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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 15, 2024. Japanese fishing vessels started harvesting the seaweed the same day in waters around Kaigara Island of the Russian-held Habomai islet group as this year's harvesting season began.

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Japan: Breathtaking Fiery Sunrise In Hokkaido

A fiery sunrise tinged the morning sky bright red in Hokkaido's Nemuro sub-prefecture. This footage was filmed on early Saturday morning, May 11.

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Kelp gathering off Hokkaido begins

KUSHIRO, Japan - Kelp is dried in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on June 21, 2014, as this year's kelp gathering in waters off the Habomai Islands, Japan's Northern Territories controlled by Russia, started the same day.

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Kelp gathering off Hokkaido begins

KUSHIRO, Japan - Harvested kelp is unloaded in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on June 21, 2014, as this year's kelp gathering in waters off the Habomai Islands, Japan's Northern Territories controlled by Russia, started the same day, about three weeks later than normal due to the weather.

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Catch of saury in Hokkaido

NEMURO, Japan, May 3 Kyodo - Photo taken in May 2019 shows a saury fishing ship that returned to Hanasaki Port in Nemuro, Hokkaido.

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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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State minister Yamaguchi surveys northern territories

NEMURO, Japan - Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs Shunichi Yamaguchi (C) surveys Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido from Cape Nosappu in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Oct. 18, 2014. He later held talks with former islanders.

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Russian resident speaks before returning to island

KUSHIRO, Japan - A Russian representative of residents on four Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido speaks at a press conference in Nemuro in the northernmost Japanese prefecture on Oct. 7, 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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Visa-free visit to Northern Territories

NEMURO, Japan - Japanese visitors chat with a Russian resident (C) on the island of Shikotan, one of the Russian-administered islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on June 8, 2014, during a visa-free exchange program. The program started in 1992, while the territorial dispute has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Visa-free visit to Northern Territories

NEMURO, Japan - Japanese visitors meet children at a kindergarten on the island of Shikotan, one of the Russian-administered islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on June 8, 2014, during a visa-free exchange program. The program started in 1992, while the territorial dispute has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Visa-free visit to Northern Territories

NEMURO, Japan - Japanese visitors dance with Russians at a dinner party on the island of Shikotan, one of the Russian-administered islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on June 8, 2014, during a visa-free exchange program. The program started in 1992, while the territorial dispute has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Ex-residents in Russian-held isles leave for visa-free visit

KUSHIRO, Japan - The first group of former Japanese residents in four Russian-held islands off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido leaves Nemuro port for a visa-free visit to one of the isles on May 24, 2014.

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Ship leaves for visa-free visit to Russian-held islands

KUSHIRO, Japan - A ship carrying the first group of former Japanese residents in four Russian-held islands off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido leaves Nemuro port for a visa-free visit to one of the isles on May 24, 2014.

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Huge crab at Hokkaido aquarium

SAPPORO, Japan - A Hanasaki crab is exhibited at Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe aquarium in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, on Sept. 1, 2013. The crab, which was caught in August off Nemuro, Hokkaido, weighs 5.7 kilograms, much heavier than usually found.

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U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashes into sea off northern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a U.S. F-16 fighter jet. A plane of the same type crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 870 kilometers northeast of Nemuro, Hokkaido around 11:30 a.m. on July 22, 2012, the Japan Coast Guard said. The fighter had taken off from Misawa air base in Aomori Prefecture, base officials said.

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Russia releases 2 Japanese men

KUSHIRO, Japan - (From R) Shigeo Nakamura and Kuniaki Yamagata arrive at Nemuro port in Hokkaido on July 14, 2012, after Russia released the two Japanese men detained in late June by Russian border control officials while sailing near Kunashiri, a disputed island off Hokkaido.

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Rally in Hokkaido for return of Russian-held islands

NEMURO, Japan - People raise their fists and chant in unison a slogan calling for the return of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, known as the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia, at a rally in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Feb. 7, 2012. Feb. 7 is designated ''Northern Territories Day'' in Japan because on that day in 1855, the Treaty of Commerce, Navigation and Delimitation between Japan and Russia was concluded, in which the two countries confirmed that the four islands are part of Japanese territory.

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Japan foreign minister views disputed isle

NEMURO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba views one of the Russian-held islands claimed by Japan aboard a Japan Coast Guard vessel off Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2012. Gemba viewed the disputed islands for the first time since taking up the post in September 2011. (Pool photo)

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New ship to shuttle between Hokkaido, disputed isles

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows new passenger vessel, the Etopirika, at a shipyard in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture, in western Japan, on Nov. 11, 2011, prior to its launch ceremony later in the day. The 1,150-ton ship, capable of carrying 84 passengers, will shuttle between Nemuro, Hokkaido, in northern Japan, and the Russian-held disputed islands off Hokkaido, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and as the Southern Kurils in Russia, from May 2012, to carry people taking part in visa-free exchange programs and other purposes.

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Russia hands drifted Japanese student over to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - Photo shows a Japan Coast Guard patrol ship at Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Aug. 25, 2011, which brought back drifted Japanese national Keisuke Kuriyama back to Japan. Russia handed the 37-year-old medical student of the University of the Ryukyus to the Japanese authorities after detaining him for an alleged unauthorized trip to one of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan.

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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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Ex-Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara on Etorofu

NEMURO, Japan - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (C) inspects a seafood processing factory on Etorofu Island, one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on Aug. 7, 2011. He was visiting the island under a bilateral visa-free exchange program. The slogan on the factory (in the background) reads ''The Kurils belong to Russia.'' The four disputed islands are known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan.

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Ex-Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara on Etorofu

NEMURO, Japan - Former Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (2nd from R) speaks with a local reporter on Etorofu Island, one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, on Aug. 6, 2011. He was visiting the island under a bilateral visa-free exchange program.

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Edano views disputed islands off Hokkaido

NEMURO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano (front) views disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido from the air on Feb. 19, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Kan hoping to see Northern Territories with own eyes

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) meets a group of people representing cities and towns in Nemuro near the Northern Territories -- four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan -- at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2010, wearing a headband that reads, ''Return the Northern Territories.'' Kan said he wants to visit Hokkaido to see the Northern Territories with his own eyes in the near future.

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Hokkaido minister Mabuchi views Russian-held islands

TOKYO, Japan - Sumio Mabuchi (R), Japan's minister in charge of Hokkaido development, views disputed Russian-held islands off the Japanese northernmost main island of Hokkaido from a Coast Guard boat off Nemuro on Oct. 4, 2010. Mabuchi said the same day he intended to visit the islands that Japan has claimed under a visa-free exchange program. (Pool photo)

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Fewer Russian ships calling at Hokkaido ports

KUSHIRO, Japan - A Cambodian ship is docked at Hanasaki port in Nemuro, Hokkaido, on March 16.

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Japanese vessel on aid mission arrives back in Nemuro

KUSHIRO, Japan - A chartered vessel on a humanitarian mission to four disputed Russian-held islands returns to Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Jan. 29 after Japan canceled the mission before arriving at one of the islands over the issue of submitting disembarkation cards.

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Sick skipper of seized boat returns home

KUSHIRO, Japan - Shigemi Fujimoto (R), the captain of the Hoyu Maru No. 31 which was seized by Russian border guards off the disputed Kunashiri Island on Dec. 13, returns to Nemuro port in Hokkaido on Dec. 20. The Japanese side had called for Fujimoto's early release because he suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure.

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Japanese skipper of fishing boat captured by Russia returns home

NEMURO, Japan - Takashi Kawabata, the skipper of the fishing boat Zuisho Maru No. 38, arrives at Nemuro port in Hokkaido Prefecture on May 28, four months after being taken into custody by Russian border guard off Kunashiri, one of the four islands claimed Russia and Japan.

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Israeli court convicts seaman over Japanese fishermen's deaths

JERUSALEM, Israel - A court in Haifa, Israel, sentenced Pilastro Zdravko, the Montenegrin second officer of the Israeli container ship Jim Asia, to two and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, on Nov. 12 for causing through negligence the deaths of seven Japanese fishermen in a collision last year with the Japanese fishing boat Shinsei Maru No. 3 off Nemuro in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Zdravko was in charge of navigation on the ship in place of the skipper when the collision occurred.

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Fishing boat skipper returns home from Kunashiri

NEMURO, Japan - Noboru Sakashita (C), the skipper of a Japanese crab-fishing boat, returned home on Oct. 3 after he was captured by Russian authorities over intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed waters off Nemuro, Hokkaido.

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Fishing boat skipper returns home from Kunashiri

NEMURO, Japan - Noboru Sakashita (C), the skipper of a Japanese crab-fishing boat, is moved to tears on returning home at Nemuro port, Hokkaido on Oct. 3 after he was captured by Russian authorities over intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed waters off Nemuro.

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Russia releases 2 fishermen, keeps skipper in custody

NEMURO, Japan - Akiyoshi Kawamura (capped) and Haruki Kamiya disembark from a ship in Nemuro port in eastern Hokkaido on Aug. 30. Russia released the two Japanese fishermen who were detained two weeks ago for alleged illegal fishing in disputed waters off northern Japan.

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Fisherman's body returns to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - The coffin of Mitsuhiro Morita, a 35-year-old fisherman who was shot dead on Aug. 16 by a Russian border patrol boat, is unloaded from the Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessel Saroma at Nemuro port, Hokkaido, on Aug. 19. Earlier in the day, Russia handed over the body to Japanese officials on Russian-held Kunashiri Island.

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Coast Guard ship heads to Kunashiri to collect fisherman's body

NEMURO, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard ship leaves Nemuro, Hokkaido, on Aug. 18 for Russian-administered Kunashiri Island to collect the body of a Japanese fisherman killed by gunfire from a Russian border patrol boat off Nemuro.

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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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Japan mission leaves for Shikotan on visa-free trip

NEMURO, Japan - A group of 63 Japanese leaves Nemuro port in eastern Hokkaido on May 19 for a four-day trip to Shikotan -- one of four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan -- for the first trip this year under a visa-free exchange program.

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Israeli firm apologizes to relatives over fatal boat collision

NEMURO, Japan - Doron Goder (C), president of Israeli shipping firm Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., apologizes on Oct. 7 to the relatives of crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Shinsei Maru No. 3 who were killed in a collision with the Zim Asia, one of its containerships, off the coast of the Hokkaido city of Nemuro.

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Israeli firm apologizes to relatives over fatal boat collision

NEMURO, Japan - Relatives of victimized crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Shinsei Maru No. 3 listen to Doron Goder, president of Israeli shipping firm Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. in Nemuro, Hokkaido on Oct. 7. Seven fishermen on the Japanese ship were killed in a collision with the Israeli containership Zim Asia off the coast of the Hokkaido city of Nemuro.

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(4)M7.1 quake hits Hokkaido

HOKKAIDO, Japan - A crack appears at Hanasaki port in Nemuro, eastern Hokkaido, on Nov. 29 after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked the region earlier in the day.

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Koizumi meets with ex-residents of Russian-held islands

NEMURO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attends dialogue Sept. 2 in Nemuro, Hokkaido Prefecture, with former residents of Russian-held islands claimed by Japan. He held the meeting after viewing some of the islands off Hokkaido and vowed to seek an early transfer of the islands.