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

RAUSU, Hokkaido—Salmon are at the peak of their upstream migration in the rivers of the eastern Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido. Salmon spend three to five years feeding and growing in the open ...

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 ...

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.

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