It opened in 1993 as a municipal facility in response to calls from the Wild Bird Society of Japan to conserve the island’s nature-rich environment and high-density bird population. The center ...

It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the Agriculture Ministry said. The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed on Jan 5 that bird flu was ...

Iwate also banned the movements of 170,000 birds kept at two other farms within a three-kilometer (1.86-mile) radius. Some 3.8 million birds kept within 10 kilometers of the infected farm are to ...

And the bird has played a great supporting role in the "Harry Potter" film franchise. Japan is said to be among ... a zookeeper at the Tama Zoological Park. There, every attempt is being made ...