According to the ministry, 30 mongooses were introduced to Amami-Oshima in 1979 to exterminate the habu snake, a poisonous pit viper. A mongoose and a habu snake face down each other. There was a ...

“I have a question about this island,” I said. “There are signs everywhere warning of 'habu' snakes. Are there really so many of them and are they as scary as I hear?” She laughed and said ...

Now, Japanese overseas as well as Japanese government ... A range of different versions of Awamori are sold in Okinawa. One with Habu snake (a species of venomous pit viper native to Okinawa ...