They took a closer look at the animals and soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Leiolepis glaurung, or the Khorat ...

The Tsushima Blue Quaker butterfly, an iconic symbol of Tsushima ... The "uraboshi" in its Japanese name means "back star" and refers to the black spots on the underside of its hind wings that ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

The green basilisk lizard is also called a plumed or double-crested basilisk; but its amazing ability to run on water gives this species its most recognizable moniker: the Jesus Christ lizard.

The region's shinnery oaks are only four or five feet high, but they provide food, shade and a breeding ground for the small, brown dunes sagebrush lizard — otherwise known as the sand dune lizard.

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

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 ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

So what if what if a brash American naval officer and a young Japanese girl met and fell ... Josh Shaws longtime dream of a bilingual Madama Butterfly comes to life at The Aratani Theatre in ...