In Ozawa’s “Butterfly,” however, Pinkerton isn’t a circa-1900 naval officer but a modern bro whose Japan fetish is indicated by the vibrant geisha posters on his apartment walls.

Researchers found dozens of mutated butterflies near the site of the nuclear accident in Fukushima, prompting officials to say it's the first sign of damage to the ecosystem. According to NBC News ...

At the time of the disaster in March 2011, pale grass blue butterflies (Zizeeria maha) were overwintering as larvae. Two months later, Otaki and his colleagues collected adult butterflies from 10 ...

Scientists have undertaken a decade-long conservation project to save a species of butterfly in its only known Japanese habitat, Tsushima Island.

Ceylon Blue Glassy Tiger butterflies are seen overwintering on branches in a forest on Amami Oshima Island in the southern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on Jan. 8, 2020.