The large butterfly, a member of the swallowtail family, has a wingspan of about 12 centimeters, and the male has black wings. It mainly inhabits southern Japan, including Okinawa Prefecture and ...

That was some performance from Japan's Tomoru Honda who breaks the 13-year-old Asian Games record to clinch men's 200m ...

Butterfly and bird populations plummeted in and around human habitats throughout Japan between fiscal 2005 and 2022, and higher temperatures were a likely cause of the declines, a study showed ...

But the population has been rapidly declining since the 2000s, with a 2013 survey by the Japan Butterfly Conservation Society only able to confirm one area in which it still lived. "It would ...

Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori, nicknamed "Madame Butterfly" for her signature winged motifs, has died. She was 96. She died of old age in her Tokyo home on 11 August and was given a private ...