Japan is one of those places that is surrounded ... On this trip I was with producer David Marks and cameraman Robin Cox to film sea snake hunting, an ancient ritual passed down through ...

And yet, not every delicacy involving snakes needs to prompt such a reaction. If you've ever been to Japan, you may have seen Habushu, also called Okinawan Snake Wine or Habu Sake. This wine comes ...

Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward—masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the ...

Craftspeople in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo are busy making porcelain figurines of snakes, the Oriental zodiac symbol for next year. A pottery studio in the Izushi district of Toyooka ...

KYOTO--Japanese commonly describe a person frozen with fear as looking like “a frog scared stiff by a snake.” But at least from a scientific perspective, it turns out the traditional portrayal ...

Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy "shinkansen" services. On Tuesday evening, a passenger alerted ...

Snake ornaments are being made there for the ... Note: The Edo period is from 1603 to 1867. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for ...

A British man has died after being bitten by a sea snake on a fishing trawler in Australia, police have said. The man, 23, thought to be a backpacker, had just pulled up a net off the coast of the ...

Russia claimed Ukraine had launched a failed bid to recapture the island but the UK says the battle is not over Right from the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Snake Island was given a vital ...

A freediver encountered a snake-like creature on the seabed off the coast of Batangas in the Philippines. The woman panicked ...