On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) published an article titled "Sorachi Manavi: Fukagawa's Iwasaki Juku Ukulele Club: Singing Youthful Songs to Cheer Up" on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital. (September 2, 2025)
September 24, 2025 (Wednesday) Kurosengoku soybeans appeared on the September 23 (Tuesday) broadcast of the TBS-operated internet site "Matsuko's Unknown World," so we would like to introduce them to you. The same program will be broadcast on September 30 (Tuesday) [...]
On Monday, September 22, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) published an article titled "Picture Book Author Teaches Crafts: Horikawa-san Invited to Chishibetsu for Class" on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital, dated September 21. [...]
September 18, 2025 (Thursday) Picture Book Author Horikawa's Event The Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) runs an internet site called Hokkaido Shimbun Digital, which reports that "Picture Book Author Horikawa's Event will be held at libraries in Hokuryu, Chishibetsu, and Numata on the 21st and 2nd. [...]
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo City) published an article titled "Appointment of Yoshiki Tanaka (68) as Superintendent of Education in Hokuryu Town, Sorachi District (10th)" on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital. […]
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, the Kita Sorachi Shimbun, an internet website operated by the Kita Sorachi Shimbun Company (Fukagawa City), published an article titled "Career Design Camp in Hokuryu, Inviting University Students from Hokkaido and Outside to Exchange Opinions on Securing Human Resources" (published on August 20th [...]
September 9, 2025 (Tuesday) The 45th annual Quiz Koshien "National High School Quiz Championship" will be broadcast on Nippon Television from 8:00 PM to 10:54 PM on Tuesday, September 9th. Himawari no Sato in Hokuryu Town will be used as a filming location.
On Monday, September 8, 2025, the Kita Sorachi Shimbun, an internet site operated by the Kita Sorachi Shimbun Company (Fukagawa City), published an article titled "Oh! Let's eat this! Irresistibly fragrant Sunflower Baked Dumplings [Mochi Confectionery and Cafe Hibi]" (August 20, 2025).
On Friday, September 4, 2025, an advertisement for "Care Worker / Full-time Staff - 2 Positions: Special Nursing Home for the Elderly, Eirakuen, Hokuryu Town" (accepted on August 28th) was posted on the website [Search for Jobs at Hello Work] operated by Antique Co., Ltd. (Osaka City).
Friday, September 4, 2025 The correct answer to our recent post was Hokuryu Town! Hokuryu Town Sunflower Village 🌻 Thank you to everyone who guessed it correctly and also to those who sent us photos of Hokuryu Town! ☺& […]
On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the NHK Hokkaido WEB, an internet site operated by NHK (Tokyo), published an article titled "Intensity 2 earthquake in Hokkaido, no tsunami concerns (12:39)" (dated September 1). We would like to introduce it to you.
On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the Hokkaido Part-Time Job Information Company (Sapporo City) published an article titled "Kurashigoto" (Lifestyle), an internet site run by the company. The article reads, "(November 8) Make farming an option in Hokkaido! Hokkaido New Farmer Fair to be held! NEW!" [...]
On Monday, September 1, 2025, Hiroto@Noutabi, a farm traveler who has been traveling around the world since mid-August, posted an article on his note website titled "August Meetup with Farm Girls and Farm Travel Circles from Hokuryu Town 🌻" (August [...]
On Monday, September 1, 2025, the Sports Hochi website operated by Hochi Shimbun (Tokyo and Osaka) published an article titled "HBC's Kinuko Morita and her friends take a day trip to Hokuryu Town... We made sunflower chocolates."
On Friday, August 29, 2025, the NHK Hokkaido WEB, an internet site operated by NHK (Tokyo), posted an article titled "A gust of wind may have occurred in Hokuryu Town on the 26th, destroying two huts. The meteorological observatory is conducting an on-site investigation."
On Friday, August 29, 2025, the Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation (Sapporo) website, HBC Hokkaido News, reported, "A gust of wind hits Hokuryu Town, Hokkaido, destroying vacant houses, blowing off roofs of storage sheds, and destroying crops in fields. [...]"
On Thursday, August 28, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) published an article titled "Heavy rain in Hokkaido: 197 mm in 24 hours in Toyotomi, 94 people evacuated in northern Hokkaido, gusty winds in Hokuryu" on its website, Hokkaido Shimbun Digital. The article was dated August 27.
On Thursday, August 28, 2025, an article was published on the Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation (HTB) website, titled "Heavy rains in Hokuryu Town caused severe damage in northern Hokkaido. The heaviest rainfall and flooding in recorded history destroyed ranches and crops over a wide area. [...]"
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On Monday, August 25, 2025, the Hokkaido Shimbun Press (Sapporo) published an article titled "Hokuryu: Setsuya Suzuki (73) illuminates the entire field of his home" on the Hokkaido Shimbun Digital website (dated August 23). [...]