Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important ...

Researchers at Kyoto University have found that contagious peeing is common among chimps at a local sanctuary.

The researchers decided to investigate after noticing that captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan tended to urinate ... the more likely they were to do the same thing.

At Koga Falls in the city of Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, the water flowing down the falls has frozen completely again this year with the coldness of win･･･ ...

Driving along the Yamanami Highway from Kumamoto to Beppu and back ... our transport was waiting. A couple of things to note about driving in Japan: the Japanese drive on the left, and tend ...

Is synchronised peeing a 'thing' and could there be a benefit to it... We shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, our ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

But all of those things are secondary to Gion's real source of fame – the geisha. Visitors to Gion may catch a glimpse of these extravagantly dressed women flitting between tea houses on wooden ...

“That’s the only place that they do feel like such an intricate ... They would say things like ‘go back to your country, get out of Japan’,” she says. Today female students typically ...

If you're looking to learn a little (or a lot) about Japan's history ... If you don't have enough time to do this (or just don't want to) the best thing to do is get a map of the museum beforehand ...