Japan is well known for its animal attractions, particularly “Rabbit Island,” or Okunoshima, and a couple of “Cat Islands,” namely Aoshima and Tashirojima. It’s hard to beat the appeal of being ...

Synodus autumnus, or the autumn lizardfish (Iroha-eso in Japanese), derives its name from its warm-toned coloration, reminiscent of the time when leaves turn orange, yellow and red in the fall, also ...

Americans may seem obsessed with animals, with daycare for dogs and TV therapists for cats, not to mention the hours we spend looking at photos of cute critters on the Internet.

Before this discovery, three species of Spiranthes orchids were found in Japan: S. australis, S. sinensis and S. hongkongensis, and only S. australis was thought to grow on the Japanese mainland.

Off the coast of Japan, divers were collecting soft coral when they noticed one of these alien-like animals hidden on the branches. Using a gill net off Sugashima in 2021 and 2022, divers removed ...

Two new species, each colored bright red and equipped with four eyes, were recently found thriving off a ghost shrimp burrow in Japan. Researchers discovered the new species with bizarre features ...

This new species is the 168th to be discovered in Japan. (Worldwide, there are more than 1,000 different species of tardigrades, and about 20 new species are found each year.) ...

Japanese tree frogs are found not only in Japan, but also Korea, northeastern China, eastern Mongolia and eastern Russia. But, when herpetologists and researchers took a closer look at the tree ...

So far, the new species has been found in Japan and Taiwan. The new species was identified by its skeletal structure, other subtle physical features and DNA, the study said.

The animals were “often found crawling on the mud walls” of earthworm burrows and crab burrows. So far, the new species has only been found “in temperate mainland Japan,” Fukuda wrote.

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- High concentrations of potentially carcinogenic PFAS "forever chemicals" have been found in Tsushima leopard ...

Further excavations found a nearly complete skeleton — the largest ever found in Japan. A fossilized skeleton of Kamuysaurus japonicus was first discovered in the Hobetsu district of Mukawa Town ...