The accident occurred in rough seas off the western coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula on April 23, 2022, leaving 20 passengers and crew members dead and six missing. JCG officials did not disclose ...

Set net fishing for salmon, where nets are dropped along migrating fish routes, is at its seasonal peak off the Shiretoko ...

The Shiretoko Peninsula, located in eastern Hokkaido Prefecture, juts into the Sea of Okhotsk. Its center is lined by 1,500-meter peaks. The heavily forested area is home to a diverse group of ...

and in 2005 was designated as a World Natural Heritage Site.

The Shiretoko Peninsula is a spectacular place. It sticks far out into the northern Pacific, covered in densely forested mountains with waterfalls that cascade off high cliffs straight into the ocean.

Photos from the day of a fatal boat accident off Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula in April 2022 have been recovered from a digital camera belonging to one of the passengers after 2½ years.

His lips go numb. And then, camera in hand, Skerry dives between the ice floes into the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, bordering the Shiretoko Peninsula. Most people think of Japan as a compact ...

Rausu is situated on Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula, which is designated a World Natural Heritage Site by the United Nations. About 10 orcas died in 2005 after getting stuck in drift ice in the ...

Shiretoko National Park covers an area of about 150 square miles on land and 85 square miles on the water, on a peninsula that juts out into the Sea of Okhotsk. The park is one of the most remote and ...

A tourist ship with about 30 people on board disappeared on Saturday in northern Japan after warning that it was sinking according to local media, and the coast guard began a search. A local coast ...