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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
It was June 11, 1962, and the prison was Alcatraz Island, off the coast of Northern California in San Francisco Bay.
Peace in Northern Ireland has helped to boost the economy of the whole island.
The new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland is a coalition of organisations all from the same island but with vastly different cultural backgrounds.
Reports were sent in by bird watchers from across the Isle of Man and sightings included resident birds such as stonechats, robins and cormorants and winter visitors to the island such as twite, whooper swans and great northern divers.
Darren Kennish, who is a member of the Northern Athletics club, said "it is a real honour to represent the island".
He also spoke of the Republic and Northern Ireland growing their economies to create jobs so that young people can stay on the island if they choose.
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Earlier on Friday, campaigners and politicians from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic gathered at Stormont to oppose any change to abortion laws on the island of Ireland.
James Robinson, RSPB's Northern Ireland director, said he would be "really worried" if oil extraction were to go ahead around Rathlin Island.
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