“It’s a provocation for sure” as Japan faces its most severe security environment since World War II.

TOKYO: Typhoon Krovanh, also known as Typhoon No. 24, is moving Thursday (Sept 3) over the waters off Minami-Daito Island in ...

TOKYO: Typhoon Krovanh, also known as Typhoon No. 24, continues moving northwest toward Okinawa Prefecture and Amami Oshima ...

A research team has analyzed bone tissues of the Japanese endemic Amami rabbit, a nationally designated Special Natural Monument. The study revealed for the first time that this species grows at an ...

I was born in 1953, the year the Amami Islands, my birthplace, reverted to Japanese rule after postwar administration by the United States. At that time, Japan’s main islands were going full-tilt into ...

Samples of the "Maya nyamber card" are seen at Amami City Hall in Kagoshima Prefecture on Feb. 21, 2023. (Mainichi/Kazuaki Kanda) AMAMI, Kagoshima -- Local authorities on Amami-Oshima Island in ...

The Amami Islands, stretching southwest 370 to 560 kilometers from Kagoshima, include eight inhabited islands that are home to 100,000 people. A distinctive culture blending mainland Japan and ...

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The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis. This discovery, made by ...

Cross-sections of the tibia (shin bone) of the Amami rabbit (left) and the Japanese hare (right), showing multiple growth arrest lines (red) in the Amami rabbit. The presence of many such lines—even ...