The migration of animals throughout history is amply illustrated by the arrival of a subspecies of deer native to Hokkaido in Kunashiri Island, part of the Northern Territories that were seized ...

According to the Saroma Municipal Government, most of the sterilized dogs were taken in by an animal shelter group in Osaka Prefecture, but several had escaped in Hokkaido. It was one of these ...

Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying squirrel, and a host of other creatures. The excerpts below ...

Born in 1999 at Asahiyama Zoo in the city of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Oto had been at Aichi Prefecture's Toyohashi Zoo & ...

HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden here has been drawing increasing foreign visitor numbers in recent years. The December ...

Lions typically live 10 years in the wild and 20 in captivity. Oto surpassed this lifespan and retained a glossy coat, ...

Both cars feature illustrations of animals living in Hokkaido such as cows, brown bears and red foxes, along with plants including wheat and mushrooms. There are also pictures of mountains and ...

and parts of the animal, such as its heels and horns, are used in crafts and jewelry. According to Upopoy, the national Ainu museum on Hokkaido, the roots of the Ainu go back about 30,000 years.