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Hokkaido

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Hok·kai·do  (h-kd, hôk-d)
An island of Japan north of Honshu. It is the second largest of the Japanese islands but the least populated. Hokkaido became part of Japan in the medieval period (c. 1600) and was called Yezo or Ezo until 1868.

Hokkaido [hɒˈkaɪdəʊ]
n
(Placename) the second largest and northernmost of the four main islands of Japan, separated from Honshu by the Tsugaru Strait and from the island of Sakhalin, Russia, by La Pérouse Strait: constitutes an autonomous administrative division. Capital: Sapporo. Pop.: 5 683 000 (2000 est.). Area: 78 508 sq. km (30 312 sq. miles)
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Noun1.Hokkaido - the second largest of the four main islands of JapanHokkaido - the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu
Japan, Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
Asahikawa - a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area
Sapporo - a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido


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The electoral seat of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is on Hokkaido island, part of the ancient homeland of the Ainu, which once stretched from northern Honshu island to the Kuril and Sakhalin islands now ruled by Russia.
Eight people died on 2,141-metre (7,024 feet) Mount Tomuraushi in the Daisetsuzan mountain range on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, a police spokesman said.
ABSTRACT Spawning season of Strongylocentrotus intermedius in Hokkaido is classified into the 3 types, Sea of Japan, Funka Bay, Sea of Okhotsk, and Pacific Ocean.
 
 
 
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