The August issue of Japan CLOSE-UP has been published.
Japan CLOSE-UP is an English-language monthly magazine bringing you the latest news on Japanese business, products, culture, society, trends, and people.
One of featured articles on the issue is "Hokkaido: The Other Japan."
Hokkaido, literally "North Sea Circuit," is Japan’s largest and northernmost of its 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, the largest island in Japan, although the two islands are connected by the underwater Seikan Tunnel, which is a 53.85km railway tunnel, with a 23.3km portion under the seabed, the longest undersea tunnel in the world.
It has wonderful natural gifts, not the least of which is wide open space to stir the expansive imagination that tends to get stifled in Tokyo. Its population density, 72.5 people per square kilometer, is one-fifth the national average.
Why, one wonders, is Hokkaido not flourishing?
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