Japan’s enduring relationship with the Arctic
Japan’s interest and engagement in the Arctic region can be traced back to 1957, when Professor Ukichiro Nakaya of Hokkaido University took part in a U.S. research expedition to Greenland. Nakaya, who is credited with created the first artificial snow crystal two decades earlier, visited the country several more times before his death in 1962.
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