(Mainichi/Tsugio Shigeharu) HYUGA, Miyazaki -- Delicate blue-purple nemophila flowers, also known as "baby blue eyes," are at their best at a park in this southwestern Japan city. The flowers at ...

Looking for something to do while you're on break? Here are some of 2025 Golden Week Events in Japan from north to south.

The flower park usually attracts around 500,000 visitors during winter illumination season. An addition this year is a mural of light 22 meters wide and 7 meters tall showcasing scenes from Japan ...

Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan is varied and complex. Usually, they use a combination of visual signals, vocalizations, or physical contact. Furthermore, their bare faces, mobile lips, dramatic eyes, ...

Kurihama Flower Park is an expansive area where many types of flowers bloom throughout each of ... At the aptly named Prefectural Trees Square, there are prefectural trees from each of Japan’s ...

Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising number of bear attacks. The ...

Nick "Nmplol" has been posting hate threads about a deer supposedly eating cherry blossoms in an apparent reference to the ...

Police have begun patrolling Nara Park to safeguard its sacred deer population after a video of a tourist kicking and slapping one of the animals went viral, sparking outrage in Japan and drawing ...

MITO – A carpet of pale blue nemophila flowers has reached peak bloom, delighting visitors to the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture. Native to North America, the flowers bloom ...

Sika deer, also known as Japanese deer, are widespread throughout Japan. They are particularly associated with Nara Park, where they freely roam and have become beloved ... to the mountainous forests ...