Discover 20 fascinating animals in Japan, from monkeys to deer, as well as other fascinating Japanese wildlife species you might see there. Japan’s islands stretch from tropical beaches to snowy ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five ...

A hotel stay in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, will soon double as a small act of animal welfare under a new project ...

Looks like Japan is taking another major step in genetics research. According to Nature, the Japanese government recently approved experiments with human-animal embryos. Don’t worry, no human babies ...

Utagawa Hiroshige, “New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, ji,” from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Edo period, 1857) (all images coutesy the National Gallery of Art, Washington) ...