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Shiretoko Peninsula is located in the north-east of Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan.
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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.
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With a fifth of Japan's arable land, Hokkaido is the country's food basket.
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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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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.
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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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