The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

260 tourists enjoyed the magnificent scenery from the Abashiri sightseeing boat about 8 kilometers offshore. The drift ice is about 10 cm thick, with the bigger sections wider than 2 meters.

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk. The city of Nemuro saw the ...

SAPPORO—Winter waves in the Sea of Okhotsk have strengthened by 12 to 15 percent on average per decade since the 1980s as global warming has shrunk flow-blocking sea ice and drift ice, data showed.