Encompassing 42,698 hectares of subtropical rainforests on four islands on a chain located in the southwest of Japan, the serial site forms an arc on the boundary of the East China Sea and Philippine ...

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A research team has analyzed bone tissues of the Japanese endemic Amami rabbit, a nationally designated Special Natural Monument. The study revealed for the first time that this species grows at an ...

Administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture, Amami Ōshima is located south of Kyūshū and north of Okinawa. It is Japan’s seventh-largest island, after the four main islands, Okinawa’s main island, ...

A cat, apparently feral, is seen with an Amami rabbit it caught in a mountain on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of the Environment's Amami Wildlife Center ...

The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis. This discovery, made by ...

Samples of the "Maya nyamber card" are seen at Amami City Hall in Kagoshima Prefecture on Feb. 21, 2023. (Mainichi/Kazuaki Kanda) AMAMI, Kagoshima -- Local authorities on Amami-Oshima Island in ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck just offshore of Okinoerabu Island in Japan’s Amami archipelago on May 20, 2026, sending strong shaking through the small port town of Wadomari and surrounding ...

Fresh fruits: Amami's combination of plentiful nature, fertile soil and history of trade has created a bounty of culinary creativity. From orange groves halfway up a mountain to vegetable patches in ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. On a subtropical island off Japan’s southwestern coast lives a population of large ...