However, the number of salmon in Japan has sharply declined in recent ... “Salmon swimming upstream is a symbol of the arrival of autumn in Shiretoko,” said Katsunori Seki, an underwater ...

Shiretoko has one of the highest concentrations ... It is part of the series "Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan," which depicts various parts of the country through the perspective ...

Other organizations, including the Nature Conservation Society of Japan, have also expressed concern over the plan to erect a tower on Cape Shiretoko. Current Shari Mayor Yamauchi Hiroaki ...

That appears to be exactly what happened on Saturday afternoon off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The Shiretoko Peninsula is a spectacular place. It sticks far out into the northern ...

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

And then, camera in hand, Skerry dives between the ice floes into the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, bordering the Shiretoko Peninsula. Most people think of Japan as a compact collection of large ...

Getty Images The Shiretoko Peninsula is well known in Japan for its beautiful lakes, dramatic waterfalls and unusual rock formations by the sea ...

Two students take a trip from Kyoto to Shiretoko in Hokkaido. But this trip of 1,250km has a limit on CO2 emissions-just 100kg! Join us on a journey that brings our environmental impact into focus.

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