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YUBARI

Internal affairs minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (center) speaks during a meeting with Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki (left) and Yubari Mayor Tsukasa Atsuya (right) in Yubari, Hokkaido, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2026
Bankruptcy-induced salary cuts for Yubari city workers to end
The announcement was made on the 20th anniversary of the city¡¯s declaration of financial collapse.
A box of two Yubari melons sold for a record-high ?5.8 million at the season¡¯s first auction in Sapporo on Friday.
BUSINESS
May 22, 2026
Yubari melons fetch record ?5.8 million at first auction of season
The melons will go on display at Keio Store¡¯s Sakuragaoka supermarket in western Tokyo before tasting events begin next week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 19, 2019
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival offers a world of fascination
Held annually from 1990, save for 2007 when its host town was facing financial difficulties, the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival has become a little corner of Hokkaido where for four days in March the cinematically weird and wonderful can flourish.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2016
Deserted Yubari tries creating new population nucleus in test case for Japan
A former coal-mining town in Hokkaido is taking unprecedented measures to combat its biggest challenge: a devastating shrinking of its population. Its success could decide the future for hundreds of other local governments waging the same battle for survival.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 12, 2014
Health care system needs a new diagnosis
In March 2007, the city of Yubari in Hokkaido became the first Japanese municipality to declare bankruptcy, letting loose a flood of media coverage characterized by expressions of sympathy for residents. Yubari¡¯s debt had reached ?63 billion, the result, according to national press reports, of an inept,...
JAPAN
Jan 13, 2014
Maruha cuts food output in Hokkaido as demand drops over pesticide scare
Maruha Nichiro¡¯s frozen foods unit cuts output in Hokkaido as consumers shun its brands after pesticide was found in products made at its Gunma plant on Honshu.
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2013
Yubari posts ¡®debt clock¡¯ ticking off rehab
The city of Yubari, Hokkaido, which declared bankruptcy in March 2007 with debts of ?35.3 billion, has posted a clock on its website to show the real-time liability balance and amount it has repaid.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2007
Long road to rehabilitation
The announcement last June by Yubari, Hokkaido, a former coal-mining town now known for the Yubari brand of melon, that it had effectively gone bankrupt sent shock waves throughout the nation because many cities, towns and villages face a similar financial crisis. The city has adopted, and the government...
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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