Skywatchers in Hokkaido enjoyed the rare treat of seeing the Northern Lights following a series of large solar flares that made the spectacle observed around the world. In Oumu, Hokkaido ...

The Kitasubaru Observatory in Nayoro, Hokkaido, says northern lights, or aurora borealis, were visible to the naked eye on October 11. It attributed this low-latitude visibility to solar flares, which ...

9, creating the possibility that the Northern Lights can be seen again over Hokkaido and other areas on the following nights. According to the National Institute of Information and Communications ...

The sky in Nayoro City began to turn purple at around 7 p.m. on Saturday The lights, also known as the aurora borealis, were visible over a wide area of Hokkaido, Japan's northern most prefecture ...