The Unification Church designated 16 years ago a religious corporation in Hokkaido as the recipient of its assets in case it is disbanded. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/08/japan/hokkaido-group-unification-church-assets/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #unificationchurch
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Japan is preparing as much as ¥802.5 billion in additional aid for chip startup Rapidus, a move that reflects Tokyo’s growing resolve to secure semiconductor supplies during a time of heightened U.S.-China tensions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/31/companies/japan-chip-startup-rapidus-more-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #chipmakers #rapidus #hokkaido #meti #investment
Hokkaido’s rail system is facing a double whammy of the delayed completion of the Hokkaido Shinkansen and a lack of passengers forcing the closure of local lines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/hokkaido-shinkansen-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #rail #shinkansen #jrhokkaido #depopulation
https://www.alojapan.com/1232605/hokkaido-reports-japans-first-bird-flu-case-of-the-season/ Hokkaido reports Japan’s first bird flu case of the season #agriculture #animals #BirdFlu #birds #health #Hokkaido #HokkaidoTopics #北海道 Sapporo – The season’s first case of the highly pathogenic bird flu has been confirmed at a poultry farm in the town of Atsuma, Hokkaido, the prefectural government said Thursday. The report is the country’s earliest confirmed bird flu case at a domestic poultry farm in over two decades. The prefectural…
https://www.alojapan.com/1230114/red-auroras-paint-the-sky-in-northern-japans-hokkaido/ Red auroras paint the sky in northern Japan’s Hokkaido #Hokkaido #HokkaidoAurora #HokkaidoNews #HokkaidoNorthernLight #JapanAurora #JapanNews #JapanNorthernLight #news #北海道 Auroras were observed in many areas of Hokkaido, Japan’s northern main island, early Friday morning. According to an astronomical observatory in Nayoro in northern Hokkaido, red northern lights lit up the sky and were visible to the naked eye for some 3 hours from ar…
https://www.alojapan.com/1226681/japan-sets-new-national-12-hour-snowfall-record-with-1-29-m-4-feet-in-hokkaido/ Japan sets new national 12-hour snowfall record with 1.29 m (4 feet) in Hokkaido #Hokkaido #HokkaidoNews #news #北海道 A record-breaking 1.29 m (4 feet) of snow fell in Obihiro, Japan, within just 12 hours on February 4, 2025, setting a new national record for 12-hour snowfall and leaving cars stranded in deep snow. Obihiro, in Japan’s eastern Hokkaido, was hit by record-breaking snowfall today, with the Obihiro Meteorological Observatory report…
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Higashi-Nemuro Station marked its final day of operations Friday, with local residents and rail enthusiasts bidding farewell to the easternmost train station in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/14/japan/japan-easternmost-train-station-final-day/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #nemuro #jrhokkaido #rail
In #Japan, fears mount of a massive 2011-style earthquake on disaster anniversary
Scientists warn seismic energy accumulating under the #ChishimaTrench off #Hokkaido has the potential to trigger a magnitude-8.8 earthquake
by Julian Ryall
Updated: 9:48am, 11 Mar 2025
"As Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of the country’s northeast in 2011, experts have warned that the seismic conditions in an underwater trench off Hokkaido hint at another powerful tremor.
"A five-year study of the Chishima Trench, which runs parallel to the east coast of Hokkaido about 150km (93 miles) offshore, has determined that the two plates are not slipping past each other. Instead, sections of the plates appear to be joined together but that when they do inevitably break free, a huge amount of seismic energy will be unleashed.
"Experts at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have been studying the trench with scientists from Tohoku University and Hokkaido University and believe the plates may have been fused together since the last major earthquake in the region in the 17th century.
"A separate report released by the government has stated that the likelihood of a quake with a magnitude of at least 8.8 in the trench within the next 30 years stands at between 7 per cent and 40 per cent.
"That might sound like an inexact likelihood and timescale, said Fumiaki Tomita, assistant professor at Tohoku University’s research centre for the prediction of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, but he pointed out that predicting seismic activity was notoriously difficult."
Original article:
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3301824/japan-fears-mount-massive-2011-style-earthquake-disaster-anniversary
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/9lFfH
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Asahikawa District Court in Hokkaido has sentenced a 20-year-old woman to 23 years in prison in a high-profile murder case in which a female high school student died after being pushed off a bridge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/09/japan/crime-legal/woman-sentenced-asahikawa-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hokkaido #asahikawa #japanesecourts
