Some say loneliness made a Japanese sunfish stop eating after its aquarium closed. One expert says it’s probably more ...

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...

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Japan Post will not deliver live reptiles starting from April on animal welfare grounds, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday ...

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.

Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.

Osaka Tennoji Zoo keeps about 1,000 animals of 170 species on its approximately 11-hectare site. The zoo opened in 1915 and is the third oldest in Japan, following Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo ...

The Japanese government plans to revise the law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when animals enter populated areas, a source close to the matter said, amid a rise ...

(Mainichi/Hideo Suzuki) On the temple grounds are communal graves for animals, the ones for humans and their pets, as well as graves where pets and their owners rest together in individual plots.