I doubt that they'd be very vivid if even visible in Southern Hokkaido and past, I've never seen any here in Michigan [about the same distance from the Northen Pole as Hokkaido] or Abashiri.
The notion of The Matrix is the uber-glitch in the actual Matrix(-like thing, except by definition we wouldn't even be able to conceive of how we might conceive what this Matrix-like thing might be)... Oh, hi babe, yeah time for that[/EOT]
The red on the left is a sunset, and the 'smoke' isn't near it. On the right is a campsight or somethign else that suffered from the long exposure time.