WePlay, the next-generation global social entertainment platform, officially announced a deep charitable partnership with the ...

Equipped with a small porthole and digital camera, the Shinkai 6500 sank to depths of more than 19,000 feet when it approached a shelf of volcanic rock, according to a study published July 24 in the ...

Cafes where people can sit with animals such as otters, capybaras and snakes can pose a threat to some species.

So-ugly-they're-cute animals are big in Japan, but there's also an appreciation of animals that are not cute by any definition. The Tama Zoo in Tokyo, about an hour from the city center by train ...

Scientists named the species after Wadatsumi, the god of the sea, and it also shares similarity to a 'One Piece' manga ...

TOKYO -- People in a southwestern Japanese city have come under attack from monkeys that are trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools. The attacks ...

Sizzling heat blankets Japan for another day, with Tuesday temperatures hitting dangerous levels above 35 degrees Celsius in ...

TOKYO, Nov. 22 -- With a second confirmed case of "mad cow" disease, Japan said today it would slaughter and incinerate 5,100 cows that may have been fed with ground animal parts.