Half a century ago Yubari, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was a coal-mining town with more than 100, 000 people.
In Tonga, Lord Tuita, the acting prime minister, said at least seven people had been confirmed dead on the northern island of Niuatoputapu.
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Muneo Suzuki is a backbench MP from the northern island of Hokkaido who was a prodigious fundraiser and a key player in the ruling party's richest and most powerful faction.
Elsewhere, the Americans are reportedly considering moving some troops from Japan's tropical island of Okinawa, where they have alienated locals (partly thanks to several rape cases involving American troops), to the less-crowded northern island of Hokkaido.
Makiko Tanaka, the foreign minister at the time, accused Mr Suzuki, an excitable politician from Hokkaido, a northern island, who appears to have great sway with mandarins in the foreign ministry, of blocking the aid groups (supposedly because they had criticised the government) and tampering in ministry matters.
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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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.
The cargo ship was headed for Jamaica when it ran aground on the northern side of the island in bad weather.
Affordability has also improved in Long Island and northern New Jersey, where during the boom, renting was half as expensive as buying.
On the northern tip of the island, archaeological expeditions have uncovered seven successive levels of settlements at the Qal'at al Bahrain (the fort of Bahrain).
The Greeks also point to recent unrest among Turks in their northern slice of the island as evidence that Turkey's position there has become weaker.
Mr Denktash still wants the Greek-Cypriots to recognise his republic in the northern third of the island before he agrees to hand back territory and property.
Unlike bland, austere northern Taiwan, Green Island is a sparkling paradise, a volcanic island where the sea is always blue and the weather sunny and warm.
The village of Oia on the northern tip of the island offers excellent, unobstructed sunset viewing and the east side of the island has black-sand beaches at popular resorts such as Kamari and Perissa.
The northern half of the island remains occupied by Turkish troops and Turkey refuses to accept the legitimacy of the internationally recognised government of the Republic of Cyprus the southern, Greek-Cypriot bit of the island, which joined the EU last May.
In fact, there are still parts of the northern half of the island that remain virtually untouched, and spiritually far removed from the sprawling club scene of San Antonio - even though, at 220 square miles, Ibiza's geography is compact.
The same powdery sand also lines the northern beaches of the facing island, Haslewood.
The worst city for finding a job this spring: the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan area.
Residents there have complained that flooding from the Great South Bay along Fire Island's northern shoreline has been more frequent and severe since Sandy.
This means a drive to the end of an extremely rough, unpaved road, snaking along the spine of the island's northern mountain range, filled with phenomenal views, jaw-chattering potholes and precipitous drops.
The lights were visible to most of the north of the Island low on the northern horizon.
McAfee lives in the remote northern part of Ambergris Caye, an island 36 miles from the Belize mainland.
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People in the south are a lot richer than those in the northern, British, bit of the island.
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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Homes on Dikson Island off the coast of northern Russia in the Kara Sea felt shockwaves from the blast that reportedly blew out windows over 490 miles away.
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Harvey Cedars, a narrow spit of sand in the northern part of the barrier Long Beach Island, has been battling with oceanfront homeowners for years over permission to construct protective sand dunes.
At least three distinct traditions of Lace making in Croatia persist today, centred on the towns of Pag on the Adriatic, Lepoglava in northern Croatia and Hvar on the Dalmatian island of the same name.
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.
This belief in escalation dominance can be seen in the recent actions of an emboldened -- and some would say desperate -- North Korea, which has resorted to limited surprise uses of military force, first sinking a South Korean naval vessel and then shelling an island near the disputed maritime Northern Limit Line.
The Uriminzokkiri website, linked to the regime, mentioned targets including Yeonpyeong island, which was attacked by Northern forces in 2010.
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