Koike said the plant will at first need several hundred employees, but ultimately upward of 1,000. And chip makers are competing for engineers amid the worldwide rise in demand for semiconductors.

Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous cooking create a cuisine like no other.

Sumitomo Electric, the company that built the Hokkaido plant, has also built flow batteries in Taiwan, Belgium, Australia, Morocco and California. Hokkaido’s flow battery farm was the biggest in ...

Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric northeastern Japan, particularly Hokkaido, using an archeological tool called flotation.

A government investigation has confirmed that tunnel construction for the shinkansen bullet train line extension to Sapporo ...

Electricity demand in Hokkaido is expected to grow the fastest in the country, as the region prepares to roll out energy-intensive data centers and semiconductor chip-making plants. Annual power ...

Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should select the ...

KUSHIRO, Hokkaido--Motorists driving westward through ... environmental assessments of planned power plants are required to check their potential effects on local ecosystems.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet approved a bill Friday designed to allow the government to invest in Tokyo-based ...

Nearly 3 million households throughout Hokkaido are without power. The industry ministry says the tremor shut down the largest thermal power plant in Hokkaido, the Tomato-Atsuma plant, which in ...

Electricity demand in Japan’s Hokkaido area is expected to grow the fastest in the country, as the region prepares to roll out energy-intensive data centers and semiconductor chip-making plants ...