Hakodate, a port city located in southern Hokkaido, is known for having one of the best night views in Japan. As the ...

HAKODATE, Hokkaido—It’s like bowling with a stick. Molkky is a team sport of Finnish origin in which a wooden pin is gently tossed at skittles. Each throw produces a score depending on how many pins ...

Goyang Special City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Donghwan) announced on the 24th that it had successfully held the first ...

There’s the cosy wine bar for an after-work tipple, the playful park-side café with a communal air and the boutique hotel ...

It is so nice to be back with reliable Internet and telephone service on board. It has been a week now that it has been very intermittent, because the Japanese rules do not allow satellite reception.

While thoughts of Hokkaido often bring to mind images of winter sports, snow festivals and chilly weather — there's plenty more to see in Japan’s northern prefecture. Located in the southernmost part ...

Thousands of tons of dead fish were found on the northern coast of Japan and no one seems to know why. The sardines and mackerels were found on an over half-mile stretch of beach in Hakodate, Hokkaido ...

A 70 m.p.h. gale out of the North screamed across Hakodate Bay as the shadow of night ran across the city, slid up the pine-covered face of Hakodate Head and The Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on ...