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Hokkaido
September 15, 2020
Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites
By Thisanka Siripala
A small, aging town grapples with the financial lure of storing radioactive waste underground.
March 27, 2019
Amid Thaw, Japan Is Seeing a Boom in Chinese Tourists
By Daniel Hurst
The influx is remaking Japan's ski resorts -- and potentially its foreign policy as well.
February 13, 2019
Is Japan Closer to Recognizing Indigenous Ainu Rights?
By Thisanka Siripala
After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time.
September 08, 2018
Japan’s Latest Deadly Earthquake Buries Scores Alive
By Thisanka Siripala
Just days after “National Disaster Prevention Day,” a powerful earthquake jolted Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.
October 25, 2010
Machimura’s By-election Win
Odds were in favour of the LDP heavyweight. We shouldn’t read too much into the DPJ’s defeat.
October 13, 2010
Machimura Career on Line
A veteran Japanese politician risks political suicide by choosing to contest Hokkaido’s No. 5 Constituency.
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