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And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
BBC: What adventures are actually left?
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Japan's foreign ministry said two Russian Su-27s violated airspace for just over a minute Thursday near its northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and that Japan then scrambled four F-2 fighter jets.
WSJ: Japan: Russian Fighter Jets Enter Its Airspace
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Despite a tunnel between Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan's main island, connections to the country's industrial heartland are poor.
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Shiretoko Peninsula is located in the north-east of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan.
UNESCO: Culture
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With a fifth of Japan's arable land, Hokkaido is the country's food basket.
ECONOMIST: The first of an occasional series on Japan��s economic pains
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Created through exhaustive processes testing countless samples and configurations, the AR1 and AR2 loudspeakers feature a final front cabinet baffle laminated to a thickness of 50 mm and 40 mm respectively from hand-selected maple cultivated from Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, whose cold climate produces maple of a tight grain, contributing markedly to the R's beautiful sound.
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Though the weather attracts skiers, around which a tourist industry has been built, there are no other large, growing industries to provide work: less than 2% of Japan's manufacturing industry is based in Hokkaido.
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They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.
ECONOMIST: A netful of trouble for Japanese fishermen
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And he sees next month's G8 summit, to be held on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, as his big moment to re-establish the environmental bona fides Japan won as host to the Kyoto climate accords.
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