Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

KAGOSHIMA--A dwarf shrub species of the nettle family, believed extinct in Japan for about a century, was recently found to be thriving in the wild on Amami-Oshima island, part of southern Japan's ...

Chef Rika visits the southwest archipelago of Japan. She meets people who are preserving ... and an area of 700 square kilometers, much of Amami is covered in forest.

The Amami Rift is off the southwest coast of Japan, just north of the island of Amami Ōshima. The research team includes Tomoyuki Komai and Chong Chen.

Japan has been struck by an undersea earthquake measuring magnitude six. The quake’s epicentre was 10km under sea level, off the northeast Coast of Amami-Oshima Island, the country’s ...

Amami-Oshima island (along with Tokunoshima and Iriomote ... species such as the dugong and the rabbitfish; kayaking through Japan’s second-largest virgin mangrove forests; and trying your ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings at 12:15 am on Sunday for the Amami Islands and the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, reported NHK World. The agency said that a ...

Nesting activity among sea turtles in Amami Oshima, an island in Kagoshima Prefecture, has continued to decline, raising concerns among researchers about population numbers. While the island is ...

Barakan Discovers Amami Oshima: Isson's Treasure Island is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

The reptiles are a year-round treat for snorkelers and other visitors to the southwestern Japan island. The private group Amami Marine Life Research Association, along with the Environment ...