Today, raccoons are a nuisance animal in Japan, rummaging through trash, stealing goods from vendors, feasting on crops and even damaging ancient Japanese ... children’s book, written by ...

Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city ... In total the ruins cover an area spanning 984 feet ...

a practice found in numerous ancient civilizations around the world. Publishing in PLOS ONE, the team reports that the Hirota people, who lived on the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima ...