Waiting for the Drift Ice Kitahama Station on the JR Senmo Line is known as the closest station to the Sea of Okhotsk. It's an unmanned station with only about 20 users per day, but when the drift ...

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The city of Nemuro saw the ...

Authorities said the 374 anglers had been trapped on the ice after it broke off from Russia's eastern coast, drifting a kilometre out into the Sea of Okhotsk on February 28. When emergency ...

Tourists are flocking to Abashiri City in Hokkaido Prefecture to marvel at the countless ice floes drifting through the Sea of Okhotsk. The phenomenon started about two weeks later than usual ...

Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year ...

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) is operating a special train again this year on part of its Senmo Line to allow passengers to view the drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk. The ...

TOKYO: (Bernama-Xinhua) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 on Saturday (Aug 10) jolted southern Sea of Okhotsk near the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, the country's weather agency said ...

On June 23, Russian radar stations detected an aerial target over the Sea of Okhotsk approaching Russia’s state border MOSCOW, June 23. /TASS/. A Russian Su-30SM fighter was scrambled to ...

MOSCOW, February1. /TASS/. Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet ships and supply vessels will practice air defense, joint maneuvering and practice firing during military exercise in the Sea of Japan and ...