Raptors are seen at North Safari Sapporo during a city inspection in September 2025 in this photo provided by the Sapporo Municipal Government. SAPPORO -- The private North Safari Sapporo, established ...

Zoos across Japan are sparing no expense in providing all the creature comforts of home for their growing collections of elderly and infirm animals. This includes special bedding developed for home ...

Three species of exotic animals took Japan by storm in 1984. Leading off in the spring was the frilled-neck lizard, which featured in a TV commercial and captured the hearts of viewers with its ...

So I guess the question for us to answer as individuals is whether we would reject a life-saving transplant if we needed one, if the organ to be transplanted came from an animal embryo. That has never ...

In fiscal 2011, local government-run animal shelters nationwide took in more than 220,000 dogs and cats abandoned by their owners. Roughly 80 percent, around 175,000, of those animals were “put down,” ...

In the first of a series of recent articles about nonindigenous animal species in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun reported comments made at this year’s annual meeting of the International Association of ...

Japan is considered one of the safest countries globally and Tokyo one of the safest cities. But if you are brave enough to traverse into the wilds of the country, who knows what terrifying creatures ...

An employee of an animal import wholesaler is seen in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2020. He contracted a virus from a southern flying squirrel, and developed kidney failure.