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Albany Times Union
May 15, 2012
AFP PHOTO CORRECTION-CAPTION A ground staff guides a
Japan Airlines aircarft decorated with Universal Studio's comic character Woody Woodpecker as it taxis at the Chitose airport in Chitose on
Hokkaido island on July 10, 2008. Japan Airlines (JAL) said ...
New York Times
May 15, 2012
The weekend of May 5th, the last of
Japan's 50 operational
nuclear reactors - the Tomari number three reactor in
Hokkaido - shut down for mandatory maintenance. Japan is, at least temporarily, a nuclear-free nation for the first time in 42 years.
Mainichi Daily News
May 15, 2012
The
Hokkaido Prefectural
police force revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun on May 15 that a woman in her 20s from Ishikari,
Hokkaido, who was consulting with the Sapporo Kita Police Station over a stalking case including threatening letters, ...
Mainichi Daily News
May 15, 2012
(KEPCO), which is expected to face the biggest shortage, but also for areas serviced by the Kyushu,
Hokkaido and Shikoku
electric power companies.
Patch.com
May 15, 2012
Months after Hokkaido opened on Route 1, it has changed owners and image.. Sushi Q Bar and Grill came online at the end of April, according to Daniel Kim of Columbia, who bought the business.
The Japan Times
May 14, 2012
Alexander Khoroshavin said Saturday that Chinese and South Korean companies will join
infrastructure development and farming projects on Etorofu and Kunashiri, two of the four disputed islands off
Hokkaido also claimed by
Japan, according to local ...
Patch.com
May 14, 2012
Months after Hokkaido opened on Route 1, it has changed owners and image. Sushi Q Bar and Grill came online at the end of April, according to Daniel Kim of Columbia, who bought the business.
The Daily Yomiuri
May 14, 2012
A corporate pension fund for electrical
contractors in
Hokkaido plans to liquidate itself due to losses caused by scandal-hit AIJ
investment advisors Co.
Reuters
May 14, 2012
Tokyo May 14 (Reuters) - Japanese utility
Hokkaido Electric Power Co said it resumed operations of the 175-megawatt coal-fired No.1 unit at its Naie plant on Sunday morning following unplanned repair work.
Postnoon
May 13, 2012
This week, as
Japan suspends work at
Hokkaido 3, its last operating
nuclear reactor, many alarmed by last year's
Fukushima crisis will breathe a sigh of relief.
The Daily Yomiuri
May 13, 2012
The total from 2006 to 2011 reached as much as 785 hectares in seven prefectures, including Hokkaido, where nearly 90 percent of such purchases took place.
The Japan Times
May 13, 2012
In what is believed to be the first such case related to the AIJ Investment scandal, the Sapporo-based fund lost
money meant to
finance the pensions of some 4000
workers at around 350 electrical
contractors in the
Hokkaido area.
Jakarta Globe
May 13, 2012
Kyushu Electric Power Co. and Hokkaido Electric Power Co. may have shortages of 2.2 percent and 1.9 percent, the report said.
Mainichi Daily News
May 13, 2012
In what is believed to be the first such case in relation to the AIJ
investment advisors Co. scandal, the Sapporo-based fund lost
money that was meant to
finance the pensions of some 4000
workers at around 350 electrical
contractors in
Hokkaido.
The Daily Yomiuri
May 13, 2012
... interview in
Tokyo, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda expressed his eagerness to send Mori to Russia for talks with
Putin to break the impasse over territorial negotiations concerning the four Russian-held northwestern
Pacific islands off
Hokkaido.
Mainichi Daily News
May 13, 2012
... Russia (Kyodo) -- Sakhalin Governor Alexander Khoroshavin said Saturday that Chinese and South Korean companies will join
infrastructure development and farming projects on Etorofu and Kunashiri, two of the four disputed islands off
Hokkaido, ...
The Japan Times
May 13, 2012
As
Japan goes nuclear-free (probably temporarily, though many outside the infamous "nuclear village" would prefer if it were forever) with the last of its 54 reactors shut down last week at
Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s No. 3 unit, at its Tomari plant, ...
PCWorld
May 11, 2012
Softbank developed the blimps together with Hokkaido University. They can be constructed in various sizes but all have the same, flattened-out shape, with their height about 60 percent of their diameter.
The Japan Times
May 11, 2012
The Japan Times
May 11, 2012
KUSHIRO,
Hokkaido Kyodo - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and
Russian president Vladimir Putin may meet in June on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in
Mexico, Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba said Friday.
New Zealand Herald
May 11, 2012
File Photo / AP With the closing down of all of
Japan's
nuclear reactors - the last, Reactor 3 at the Tomari plant in
Hokkaido, went offline on May 5 - the pressure is on the Government to roll out a new energy
strategy which will placate the nation's ...
First Tracks
May 11, 2012
Online Media Honolulu, HI - North American
Skiers and snowboarders will now be able to avoid tedious transfers in
Tokyo and now fly directly to ski resorts on
Japan's northern island of
Hokkaido aboard new flights announced by Hawaiian Airlines on ...
The Japan Times
May 10, 2012
Executive chef Richard Ekkebus carefully inspects this precious cargo before using the
fish, along with an array of other Japanese delicacies, to create some of his signature dishes: lobster gelee topped with creamy
Hokkaido sea urchin and black caviar ...
Gizmodo
May 10, 2012
To prevent this from happening after the next big rumbler, Softbank has collaborated with researchers at
Hokkaido University to create an emergency radio relay network that hang beneath large, tethered
balloons.
Ski Independence (blog)
May 10, 2012
I ended up spending an incredible season in Niseko is the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Coming up with a top five is very difficult, I'll give it a go however, see what you think: It may seem bizarre, but it was truly refreshing to be ...
Bizjournals.com (blog)
May 10, 2012
Honolulu-based Hawaiian, a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (
Nasdaq: HA) will begin service three times per week between Honolulu International Airport and New Chitose Airport on the island of
Hokkaido ion Nov. 1, pending approval from the Japanese ...
Nature.com
May 10, 2012
The reactor, at the Tomari
nuclear power plant in
Hokkaido, was taken offline for routine maintenance. None of the reactors that were closed down after an
earthquake and
tsunami struck the
Fukushima Daiichi plant last March has yet reopened.
CNBC.com
May 10, 2012
The airline said in a news release Wednesday it hopes to begin service from Honolulu to New Chitose Airport on the northern Japanese island of
Hokkaido in November. It must obtain
Japanese government approval to begin flights.
Hawaii News Now
May 10, 2012
Sapporo is a city of about 2 million population on the northern island of Hokkaido. Hokkaido is about the size of Ireland with a similar population, about 6 million.
GlobalPost
May 10, 2012
Ski Independence (blog)
May 10, 2012
I ended up spending an incredible season in Niseko is the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Coming up with a top five is very difficult, I'll give it a go however, see what you think: It may seem bizarre, but it was truly refreshing to be ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 10, 2012
AP The airline said Wednesday it hopes to begin service from Honolulu to New Chitose Airport on the northern Japanese island of
Hokkaido in November. It must obtain
Japanese government approval to begin flights.
CEO Mark Dunkerley says the new route ...
The Chosun Ilbo
May 10, 2012
The instrument panel on a Jin Air passenger jet that took off from Chitose Airport in
Japan's
Hokkaido Prefecture on April 29 began to malfunction as the
aircraft was landing at Incheon International Airport.
The Daily Yomiuri
May 10, 2012
A trading firm based in Otaru,
Hokkaido, recently received an e-mail from a Chinese woman saying, "As mountains in
Japan are cheap, I'd like to buy one for my child.
Wall Street Journal
May 10, 2012
Taipei Times
May 10, 2012
By David Chen / Staff reporter While Hokkaido Ramen Santouka has everyone lining up for its noodles, the restaurant's dumplings aren't bad either.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 10, 2012
The airline is set to begin service between Honolulu International Airport and New Chitose Airport on the island of
Hokkaido three times per week in November 2012, pending
Japan government approval. Sapporo will be the fourth Japanese destination that ...
Sacramento Bee
May 9, 2012
The airline is set to begin service between Honolulu International Airport and New Chitose Airport on the island of
Hokkaido three times per week in November 2012, pending
Japan government approval. Sapporo will be the fourth Japanese destination that ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
May 9, 2012
Sapporo is
Japan's fifth-largest city with a population of 1.9 million and is located on the island of
Hokkaido. The
Hawaii Tourism Authority estimates the new flight will provide $61 million in direct visitor spending, $6.7 million in
tax revenue and ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
May 8, 2012
The last
tornado to do this much damage in
Japan hit Saroma, in the northern island of
Hokkaido, in November 2006. That tornado left nine people dead and 31 injured, according to the National
police Agency.
Wall Street Journal
May 8, 2012
Amid safety concerns following last year's
Fukushima accident,
Japan's last operating reactor, on the island of
Hokkaido, was taken offline on Saturday. That has raised the prospect of energy shortages heading into the peak-demand summer months.
ABC News
May 8, 2012
The parade was held to celebrate the first day of a "nuclear free
Japan", after the Tomari nuclear plant on Japan's
Hokkaido Island was taken offline late on the previous evening. (Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images) Today in Pictures.
The Japan Times
May 8, 2012
"
tornadoes rarely occur in this season," said Yasushi Fujiyoshi, professor at
Hokkaido University. "It is rare in the first place for cold air to form in the troposphere in May.
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
May 8, 2012
Here are the top ten's on-time arrival percentage numbers:
Hokkaido Int'l - 95.76% J-Air - 94.30%
Japan Air Commuter - 92.41% ANA Wings - 91.47% JAL Express - 91.01% Tiger Airways - 90.22% ANA - 88.91% JAL - 88.82% SpiceJet - 83.95% Japan
Transocean ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 7, 2012
3 unit of Tomari
nuclear power plant operated by
Hokkaido Electric Power Co, for mandatory routine maintenance during an anti-nuclear protest rally in
Tokyo, Sunday, May 6, 2012.
The Japan Times
May 7, 2012
AP The last to switch off, reactor 3 at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear plant, went offline early Sunday after halting electricity output Saturday.
Belleville News Democrat
May 7, 2012
BY WILL BUSS - News-Democrat
Hokkaido Steak & Sushi Buffet opened its doors after weeks of renovating and remodeling its new home along
Illinois 159 in Swansea.
Reuters
May 7, 2012
May 7 (Reuters) -
Hokkaido Electric Power Co shut down a
nuclear reactor for routine maintenance on May 5, the last of
Japan's 50 reactors to cease operations, marking the first time since 1970 that the nation has been
nuclear power-free.
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2012
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. shut the No. 3 unit at its Tomari plant in northern
Japan on May 5 as scheduled, leaving the country without an operating reactor for the first time since May 1970.
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2012
Japan was without electricity from
nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the reactor at Tomari nuclear plant on the northern island of
Hokkaido went offline for mandatory routine maintenance. After last year's March 11 quake and
tsunami ...
