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Rowan Hooper
Rowan Hooper has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Sheffield University, UK, and he worked as an insect biologist in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, for five years before spending a two-year period at The Japan Times in Tokyo. He is now news editor for New Scientist magazine, based in London.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Aug 27, 2008
Japanese Minnow
Japanese name: Mugitsuku
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 13, 2008
Foundering 'flagships'
It's often said what a privilege it is to attend a birth, and so it was in July that I felt lucky to witness the moments after the birth — by hatching — of a Green Turtle.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Aug 13, 2008
Collared Scops Owl
Japanese name: Ookonohazuku
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 30, 2008
Climate change in Costa Rica
A couple of weeks ago I was woken at dawn by the booming screeches of the aptly named Howler Monkey. I was in Costa Rica, in the cloud forest of Monteverde.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 9, 2008
Is there anyone out there?
W hat's the most incredible headline you could expect to read in a newspaper? For me, it would have to be something like: "We are not alone: Life found on other planets."
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Jul 9, 2008
Ice goby
Japanese name: Shiro-uo
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Jun 25, 2008
Magpie
Japanese name:Kasasagi
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Jun 11, 2008
Burrowing rat snake
Japanese name: Jimuguri
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 11, 2008
Of Darwin and Mishima . . .
If I said that I met Darwin last week, you might think I'd gone crazy.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 28, 2008
Four-eyed perch
Japanese name: Oyanirami
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
May 14, 2008
Red-spotted grouper
Japanese name: Kijihata
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 14, 2008
Space defense no reason to ax gentler projects
For a country with a constitution "forever renouncing war" (Article 9), Japan spends an awful lot of money on its military. In 2005 it was the fifth largest military spender in the world. And now there is the unsettling news that Japan is expanding its powerful self-defense capability into space.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 30, 2008
Do bacteria make the man (or woman or child)?
What happens when Japanese people start eating a Western diet? Could it mean that their famed long life span starts to decline?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Apr 23, 2008
Goose barnacle
Japanese name: Kamenote
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 9, 2008
Life and left-handed meteorites
I wonder if Empress Gensho, who ruled Japan for nine years and died in 748, had something against left-handed people.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Apr 9, 2008
Pike gudgeon
Japanese name: Kamatsuka
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Mar 26, 2008
Northern lapwing
Japanese name: Tageri
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 12, 2008
Food for thought in our ways of seeing
W hen the famed Michelin food guide belatedly reached Asia recently, it seemed to make up for lost time, awarding more of its coveted stars to restaurants in Tokyo than are held by restaurants in New York and Paris combined. About time, too.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Mar 12, 2008
Black-faced spoonbill
* Japanese name: Kurotsura-herasagi * Scientific name: Platalea minor * Description: A large, white, striking bird with a black face and bill, and black legs. The bill is the most distinctive feature, being wider at the tip than in the middle, with a flattened end like a paddle or a spoon. The long...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / ANIMAL TRACKER
Feb 27, 2008
Snow crab
Japanese name: Benizuwaigani
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Saitama court bans demonstrations over anti-Kurd hate speech
Kurdish people in Japan in 2015. A court injunction has banned acts that defame the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association and are disrespectful, such as putting up banner flags or handing out fliers with hate speech like “Refugees should go back to their home countries.”
China reinstates visa-free travel for Japanese nationals
Beijing Daxing International Airport
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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