It breeds from northeast European Russia across northern Asia to northern Hokkaidō, Japan.

In areas such as southern Kyūshū and northern Hokkaidō, where employment opportunities are limited, recruiters are welcomed and supported by the citizens.

As the central city in northern Hokkaido, Asahikawa has been influential in industry and commerce.

A court ordered a public bathhouse in northern Hokkaido to pay $25,000 to three bathers it barred because of their foreign appearance.

Stand and self-thinning dynamics in natural Abies stands in northern Hokkaido, Japan.

Brunton went on to construct another 25 lighthouses from far northern Hokkaidō to southern Kyūshū during his career in Japan.

Its formation about 60,000 to 11,000 years ago had closed the path used by the mammoths which had earlier moved to the northern Hokkaidō.

In Japan, it is generally common from Kyushu northward, but uncommon in northern and central Hokkaido.

But the archipelago stretches from northern Hokkaido, where huge amounts of snow pile up, to Okinawa, which has a year-round tropical climate.

They inhabit the cedar, cypress and hardwood forests from northern Hokkaido to Kyushu, from the mountains to the plains.