The event was held to coincide with a special exhibition about the city and the animals that used to inhabit the area. The last known sighting of a Japanese wolf, one kept in captivity in Nara ...

Confirmation of the sixth Japanese wolf specimen was possible only because the animal was preserved for a century. “This research project reaffirms the importance of treating any specimen with ...

The last verified Japanese wolf was killed in 1905 in Nara Prefecture, and since then, the animal has lived on only through a ...

In three days, the animal killed seven people, including children and a pregnant woman. This tragedy helped fuel the fear of bears in Japan’s collective ... are buying wolf-shaped howling ...