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 ...

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 ...

The Nihon “mamushi,” or Japanese pit viper ... It raises and displays about 1,000 snakes of around 50 species, including “habu,” mamushi and the “yamakagashi” tiger keelback.