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ANIMALS

JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 27, 2016
Japan, China, other nations agree to curb chub mackerel catches in North Pacific
Japan, China, Taiwan and other countries have agreed to make an effort to curb chub mackerel catches in the northern Pacific Ocean, amid growing concern at overfishing by Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 25, 2016
Nigerian faces charges for naming his dog after president
A Nigerian is being charged for provoking people and "breach of peace" by naming his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari and painting the name on the pet, police said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 21, 2016
Home, sweet home: Dachshund Ilio finds a family
The miniature dachshund Ilio, first featured here in February, has found a home with the Furutas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2016
Zoo's rare albino Mississippi gator big draw in Shizuoka
A zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture is seeing a surge in visitors this summer after it started displaying an entirely white Mississippi alligator.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 14, 2016
Into the mystic: a cat named Miko
The mystery is how this beauty, who came to ARK a full six months ago, can still be sitting in the shelter without a home of her own.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 7, 2016
Fine day for a stroll: a Japanese Chin cross named Parasol
Weighing less than most cats, Parasol belongs to the breed of dog that was long popular in the houses of Japanese nobility.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 7, 2016
Exquisite dolphin fossils provide insight into evolution of ultrasonic hearing, echolocation
Fossils unearthed in a South Carolina drainage ditch are providing insight into the development of ultrasonic hearing in prehistoric whales, a trait closely linked to their uncanny ability to hunt and navigate using sound waves and echoes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 24, 2016
Pin-up girl: Pickles the pointer mix
Pickles, an 8-year-old pointer mix, was taken in when she was found wandering the streets alone.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 17, 2016
Fluffy pick-me-up: Dog Blewit is nothing to sniff at
No one gave Blewit so much as a glance before he was rescued from a filthy hellhole of a place he shared with some 30 other dogs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 15, 2016
Lucky bug eluded eternal entombment in 50-million-year-old amber
A chunk of amber found along the Baltic Sea in Russia provides evidence roughly 50 million years old of an extremely fortunate bug.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 10, 2016
Cool Cuke: a handsome cat named Cucumber
Life has given Cucumber a bit of a runaround. He lost his home to a fire when he was just a year old. He found a new home but was then bullied by the bigger resident cat.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 5, 2016
U.S. Army veteran uses shooting skills to free eagle entangled by rope in Minnesota
A U.S. Army veteran used his sharp-shooting skills to free a bald eagle trapped in a Minnesota tree ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, his wife said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jul 3, 2016
God dag!: Good dog Jerry finds a loving home in Sweden
Jerry has found a new home far from Japan, where he had been rescued as a stray.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 1, 2016
In a first, genome-editing used to make immunodeficient marmosets for insight into human diseases
In a world's first, Japanese researchers produce immunodeficient marmosets via genome-editing technology to study maladies that more closely resemble human diseases.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 28, 2016
Experts say South China Sea reefs being 'decimated' as local Chinese harvest giant clams
Ornaments made from the shells of endangered giant clams, renowned in China for having auspicious powers and the luster of ivory, have become coveted luxuries, a trend which has wreaked havoc on the ecosystem of the South China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 26, 2016
Never mind Japan's looming pension disaster — here's a cute squirrel
On our island of just 529 people in the Inland Sea, we have one post office and one bank. The bank, run by the almighty JA (Japan Agriculture), shares an office with the JA dry goods store, which offers everything from rodent poison to a new water heater.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jun 26, 2016
Skies of blue: a Great Pyrenees named Cosette
This fluffy white beauty is a Great Pyrenees, a gentle breed that is something of a giant when full-grown. Cosette is just over a year old and already 30 kg despite a tragic start. She had been abandoned, left to die along with other dogs in a Tokyo apartment. Filthy, her body wasted when found, she...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 23, 2016
A purr-fect union? Cats battle over Brexit on social media
The fur is flying on social media as Britons prepare to vote Thursday on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 22, 2016
Double happiness as China welcomes first giant panda twins of 2016
Two healthy baby giant pandas were born at a Chinese breeding research base Monday, the first twins of the endangered species born this year, media said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jun 19, 2016
Cruisin': a cat named Bateau
Two-year-old Bateau is a classic — free-spirited, charming, with the grace and agility of one of the big cats.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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