At the foot of the forests of Minakami, in Japan’s central Gunma Prefecture, all the elders know that the Yama-no-Kami, who ...

This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Updates website. What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the ...

People visiting a zoo in western Japan have had the opportunity to touch a snake, the Oriental zodiac symbol for 2025.

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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 ...

It was the latest in a series of human encounters with bears in recent years that have prompted the Japanese government to propose loosening restrictions on shooting the animals. The plan ...

(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.