A heart‑melting clip shows a baby snow monkey swimming at The Snow Monkey Park (Jigokudani Monkey Park), the world‑famous reserve in Nagano that remains the only place on Earth where visitors can see ...

Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture is home to the Biwa trout, a type of salmon found only in this lake. These fish are now swimming upstream in rivers flowing into Lake Biwa to find places to lay their ...

One of the few highlights for Japan at last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris was the silver medal performance by Tomoyuki Matsushita in the 400 individual medley. An 18-year-old at the time of the ...

Keeping with Japanese tradition, the women’s 100-meter breaststroke offered a tight finish on the second night of the Japan Swim in Tokyo. Clocking a time of 1:06.21, Satomi Suzuki emerged victorious, ...

OSAKA, Japan—The Japanese have been drinking sake since the eighth century. Back then, it was believed the rice-based liquor warded off ghosts. Today, it has a stronger spirit to contend with: whisky.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Illvelo Swamp Happy Together will launch for Switch on Jue 5 in Japan, publisher Mebius and developer RS24 announced. It will cost 6,578 yen for the physical edition, 4,980 yen for the digital edition ...

TOKYO — A truck and its driver were swallowed by a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool that appeared at a busy intersection in the Japanese city of Yashio on Tuesday. The crater, about 32 feet ...

A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in an inflatable swim ring more than 50 miles in the Pacific Ocean, officials said ...

July 11 (UPI) --A 21-year-old Chinese woman was rescued off of Japan's Chiba Prefecture after she was swept into the deeper ocean while swimming some 36 hours earlier, officials said on Wednesday. The ...

Tokyo — A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in a swimming ring more than 50 miles in the Pacific Ocean, officials said ...