By monopolizing the gold, iron and horse trade in northern Honshū the family became enormously wealthy.

Tōsandō is in the central mountains of northern Honshū.

On the 13th and 14th, their targets were northern Honshū and Hokkaidō.

Winter precipitation is particularly heavy on the west coast of northern Honshu and in Hokkaido.

It consists of a cluster of stratovolcanoes and is the most active volcano in northern Honshū.

The Tōsandō is a region which straddles the central mountains of northern Honshū.

Some rural Japanese in northern Honshu who have been studied took an estimated 26 grams of salt a day.

June 14 - the 2008 Iwate earthquake strikes northern Honshū, leaving two dead and hundreds injured.

Liberal Democrats are not supposed to lose in this conservative alcove of northern Honshu.

It was situated along the central mountains of northern Honshu, Tōhoku region.