Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird rescued from extinction in Japan. Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan detected the first case of highly pathogenic H5-type bird flu this season at a poultry farm in the south of the country, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday. The local ...

With a resident population under 1,500, the tiny island and World Heritage Site received almost 5 million tourists last year alone. But one breed of visitor in particular appears to have grown too ...

If you love birds as much as I do, you may be captivated by their vibrancy of colors, their range of sounds (whether sweet like those of songbirds or booming like the bittern), their ability to fly ...

Tokyo — The "shrine island" of Miyajima is one of Japan's most iconic destinations. A quick ferry ride from downtown Hiroshima, the postcard-perfect locale is much-loved for its giant "floating" ...

Officials in protective suits work at a chicken farm where an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed in Mitoyo, western Japan. Reuters TOKYO – Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record ...

An artistic rendering of the early Cretaceous era fukuipteryx prima, a dino-bird with a tail feather-supporting skeleton, which was discovered by researchers in central Japan. (Masanori Yoshida) (CN) ...

TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Bird flu has been detected in a fifth Japanese prefecture, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, as a wave of infections at poultry farms sparks the Japan's worst outbreak ...