the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
northern country; northern provinces; northern regions; northland
northern sea; North Sea; Hokkaido
Arctic Circle; the Arctic
Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor); Alpha Ursae Minoris; the North Star
Hokke (northern branch of the Fujiwara clan, Heian period)
Arctic region; the Arctic; north polar region
Northern Territories (administered by Russia, claimed by Japan); Southern Kuril Islands
person from Hokkaido; Hokkaido native
going north; heading northward
the four northern islands (held by Russia); south Kuril Islands; northern territories
Hokkaido Prefectural Police
Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, Limited
Hokkaido (dog breed); Ainu dog
Northern Territories dispute; Kuril Islands dispute
northern lights; aurora borealis
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Hokkaido Prefectural Office
Palearctic (region); Palaearctic
Sakhalin surf clam (Pseudocardium sachalinense)
Director General of Hokkaido Development Agency
polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Northern Chinese; Mandarin
Northern Jiaotong University
North China University of Technology
Northern Territories Affairs Administration
Hokkaido Information University
Hokkaido College, Senshu University
Hokkaido Bunkyo University
Hokkaido University of Science
Hokkaido University of Education
State Minister in Charge of Issues of Okinawa and Northern Territories
Hokkaido Tokai University
Hokkai School of Commerce
Hokkaido Chitose College of Rehabilitation
Hokkaido Social Welfare Association
Hokkaido Wildlife Laboratory
Northern Limit Line; North Limit Line; NLL; demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea
Hokkaidou University of Health Sciences
Northern Buddhism (as practiced in East Asia)
Boreoeutheria (clade of placental mammals); Boreotheria; boreoeutherians
Hokkaido Sociological Association; HSA
Northern Territories Issue Association
Hokkaido Association for Urban Studies
Hokkaido Municipal Horse Race Association
Hokkaido-Tōhoku Development Finance Public Corporation
Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)
northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis); sweet shrimp; northern pink prawn; red shrimp; Maine shrimp
Hokkai shrimp (Pandalus latirostris)
Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus)
Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos)
arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus); Greenland right whale
Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida); polar cod