Right outside of Kyoto, Japan, is Nara, a picturesque city that’s home to some of the cutest and most polite animals in the world— the wild deer of Nara Deer Park! These deer are known to bow to ...

Japanese primatologists were the first to ask whether animals have developed rituals of their own. The snow monkeys are one of several groups of Japanese macaques that have changed the way we see ...

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.

Japan's government approved a request for stem-cell experiments meant to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. The experiment, which still requires approval from the ...

The law designates animals with a high risk of harming people as 'dangerous wildlife animals' that can be shot.

The Animal Welfare Japan (AWJ) was created in 1956 to raise public awareness and funding to ensure pioneering animal welfare activities in Japan were continued and improved. Reputable animal ...

Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising number of bear attacks. The ...

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 ...

A study of 136 websites and 301 social media accounts to tally the number of such animal cafes in Japan, and the species kept on their premises, turned up some surprising findings. The survey ...

Japan's government approved a request by scientists to conduct stem-cell experiments to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. Japan's science ministry last week gave ...