Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

I was driving down a desolate, narrow road late in the afternoon in the northern part of Amami-Oshima island, making my way ... kayaking through Japan’s second-largest virgin mangrove forests ...

The team, including researchers from Okayama University of Science and the University of Tokyo, studied 31 Amami rabbit specimens to calculate the number of their growth arrest lines, which are ...