City officials recently announced the latest batch of 23 local firms to earn the Time-Honored Brands designation. New ...

Butterfly and bird populations plummeted in and around human habitats throughout Japan between fiscal 2005 and 2022, and higher temperatures were a likely cause of the declines, a study showed.

The government is recruiting offshore wind power projects in some sea areas of Japan. An Akita-based joint venture started commercial operations of Japan’s first large-scale offshore wind farm ...

Deep-Sea Corals Are Home to Previously Unknown Bacteria ... 24, 2024 — Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling a panda ...

Have you ever dreamt you were a bird? Or wondered what it would be like to fly? Well... we can't tell you what it's like to fly, but we can tell you what kind of sea bird you are! All you have to ...

The infections are increasing at a similar pace to late 2022, when a record number were detected in Japan. As of Wednesday, 10 cases of bird flu had been confirmed at poultry farms in eight ...

TOKYO, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- An outbreak of avian influenza has been confirmed at a poultry farm in Japan's Izumi City, Kagoshima Prefecture, marking the first case in Kyushu this season, Japan's ...

A child in California has become the first in the United States to test positive for bird flu infection, authorities said Friday, as health officials offered checks and preventive treatment to exposed ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation.

Nakatani also said he had voiced Japan’s concern on the situation in the East China Sea, including the Senkaku Islands, and China’s increasing military activity in the sea and airspace ...

Birds cannot survive without breathing, and their naturally high metabolic rate increases their oxygen demand. Some deep-diving birds can go over 20 minutes without breathing, while a Hummingbird may ...

Imagine being able to ‘cheat’ the seasons and live in an everlasting summer, or at least avoid the worst of the winter chill. Well, many birds do just that. The power of flight enables avians to move ...