Both sides refused to budge, but Hijikata is finally brought down by a single bullet. He puts his life on the line, dying in the decisive Battle of Hakodate. Hijikata Toshizō’s last battle.

In 1878, when the wounds of the Battle of Hakodate that concluded Japan’s Boshin Civil War were still raw, three nuns from France arrived in Hakodate to serve the citizens through teaching and ...

After seven hours on the plane and another three-and-a-half hours on the train, I finally found myself on a street of Hakodate, the southernmost city of Japan's northernmost prefecture.

The former Russian Consulate in Hakodate, Hokkaido, built in 1908 by the Russian Empire and featured in the popular manga "Golden Kamuy," will reopen as a luxury hotel in July after remaining ...

Approximately 1,000 persons are reported to have been killed and a greater number injured in the conflagration which destroyed about four-fifths of the city of Hakodate, chief port of Hokkaido ...