Northern Hokkaido area has 2 subprefectures:
- Souya subprefecture
- Rumoi subprefecture
Unreached Northern Hokkaido 14 out of 18
14 Unreached out of 18
Here are unreached cities/towns/villages under each subprefectures
Rumoi subprefecture has 8 cities and towns. Out of which, there are 6 unreached towns as follows: The following video shows the abundant fishery in Mashike town: The following video is the view from the viewpoint: The following video shows the wind power farm in Tomamae town. Prayer Points: One of the taxi driver suggested to use the barren coal mine as tourist attraction: Prayer Points: The following video is a beautiful sunset at the beach side. This is a video at the roadside station/camp site/wind power/etc. Prayer Points: Introduction Video for Embetsu town: Prayer Points:
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Souya subprefecture has 10 cities/towns/villages. Out of which, there are 8 unreached towns and villages:
Here is a nice introductory site:
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- Population: 2439 as of Feb. 2016
- Horonobe town has rein deer farm:
- They also have wind power plant:
- This town has Sarobetsu National Park:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- Pray for God’s supernatural leading people to the Lord.
- Pray for the evangelists and pastors are raised up from this town.
- Population: 4077 as of Feb. 2016
- This town is known for its milk production. The main convenient store called “Seicomart” uses this town’s mile to produce Seicomart brand.
- Toyotomi town has great hot springs which is very effective for healing Atopic dermatitis. Many people with Atopic dermatitis come to this hot springs. They have separate entrances: one for those who have Atopic dermatitis, and one for all others.
Here is the video about the hot springs for atopic dermatitis:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- Pray that God will prepare the hearts of people when the evangelists arrive.
- Pray that God will show strategic way to approach this town.
- Population: 2662 as of Feb. 2016
- Rebun town is a small island on the northern western side of Hokkaido. It is known for the beautiful and rare flowers only grown in this island.
- Like any other small towns and villages, this town also struggling with young people leaving the town looking for jobs. Recently this town made a goal of the population strategy. Trying their best to keep the decreasing rate as low as possible.
- During summer, many tourists visit this island for hiking and climbing the mountain.
- Here is the tourist information: http://www.rebun-island.jp/en/
Here is a video of science video regarding Rebun Island Flowers:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- Pray for the awakening for this town.
- Pray for the openness to the Gospel from the people in this town.
- Population: 2681 as of Feb. 2016
- Rishiri is a small island Northern Western Hokkaido. This island has two towns: Rishirifuji and Rishiri. They are two separate towns in one island. East and West.
- Now I have a friend who is the director of one of local post office. He is from this island and used to be my neighbor.
- Fishery and tourism are the main industry for this island.
- It has very nice spring water in many places. The water tastes really great.
The following video shows the beautiful sunset:
Here is an event took place recently for mountain skiing:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- This island has lots of alpine plants. Each of them has unique name. Likewise, God remembers each person who lives in this island. Pray that they will be found by God and know their purpose of life and go in that direction.
- Please pray that the beauty of the nature would speak to the hearts of the people in the land.
- Population: 2201 as of Feb. 2016.
- Rishiri town is on the west side of Rishiri island.
- Here is the URL for the town office: http://www.town.rishiri.hokkaido.jp/rishiri/1.htm (You can choose English)
- Fishery and tourism are the main industry.
This video shows some of the highlights of Rishiri town:
Some guy was skiing at the top of Mt. Rishiri:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- Pray for the challenge of keeping the town growing to be used as a place where God can work through the situation.
- Pray that God would supernaturally intervene in the minds of people that God lives through Jesus Christ and He is the only God who created all things.
- Population: 2748 as of Feb. of 2016
- Sarufutsu village is located in the furthest northern village in Japan.
- It’s main industry is fishery and dairy farming.
- The official home page: http://www.vill.sarufutsu.hokkaido.jp/ (Click multilingual)
- It had a coal mine here. The labors were collected from many different places. One of the place was from Korea while Japan tried to make Korea under Japan. During this time, many people came to coal mine as laborers.
You can watch the 90th year of Sarufutsu village as historic collection:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- This village’s mayor once tried to admit the people who died in this village when they were brought as forced labor from S. Korea during Japanese domination over Korea. However, that plan was dismissed because of the objection raised by the tourism association directors. Some media picked it up for news. The mayor tried to remember what had happened in the history and talks were in progress between South Korean local government and Sarufutsu village to build the tomb with those who died in this village. That could be a reconciliation point where the innocent blood can be canceled. Please, pray that people will know the blood of Jesus can cleanse all sins and iniquities.
- Please, pray for the wisdom for any Christian who are called to this village to overcome the current difficulties like Joseph in Egypt.
- Population:8498 as of Feb. 2016.
- Esashi town was merged from two towns: Esashi and Utanobori. Esashi is fishery town, and Utanobori is farming town. By merging the two, they now have both the mountain and ocean in the town.
The following video shows about the town:
Here is the video produced by the town about crab fishery:
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- There has been discrimination again Ainu people in Hokkaido. Please pray for the Ainu to turn to the living God who can give heart to forgive and reconcile.
- Pray for the salvation of the youth from this town. The young people are the future of the town and they are soft in heart where the Gospel can penetrate into their hearts.
- Population: 1793 as of Feb. 2016
- Nakatonbetsu also has lots of Ainu presence. It is a very small town with population decrease.
- It is a forest town with lumber business. The town was started by placer mining. But soon the trend has changed and the quick decrease of population started.
The following video shows 3 towns. The last town is Nakatonbetsu town(about 4:45):
Prayer Points:
- Please, ask the Lord of harvest to send His laborers into this town. (Matthew 9:38, Luke 10:2)
- Pray for the 1st Nation ministry to the native Americans in Montana state in America. They want to minister to Ainu in Hokkaido. One of the Cherokee Native Indian descendant came to visit us last year for spying out the land.
- As we see in the history, there were known and professed Ainu Christians before, pray that the revival would take place among the Ainu people.