All of these processes worked together to shape a monkey’s life, and in a completely natural setting could not easily be unraveled. Left, an infant in a tree on Yakushima. Right, another ...

YAKUSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--Additional safety precautions are being called for to warn the public of nearly four tons of a toxic weedkiller long buried in Yakushima island, a World Natural ...

Does it really rain 366 days a year on Yakushima island, the place that inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film “Princess Mononoke”? Having visited the island several times, I was about ...