"It got me thinking," said Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University, "could this be one of those contagious ...

She is part of a team of researchers that recently discovered that the primates tend to tinkle when they see nearby chimps do the ... chimps at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Kyoto, Japan.

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･･･ ...

Contagious urination was seen among chimps at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan. Researchers think it ... tend to pee when others in their group do, in a phenomenon scientists have dubbed ...

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

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 ...

In Japan, the ministry plans to create an office in Fukuoka, which is about a two-hour drive from Kumamoto, where TSMC is building two ... AI would fuel a new industrial revolution and would ‘do ...

What you do with your ossan is up to you. Practice for the real thing. Money might not buy love, but it can buy you some cute arm candy, at least for a few hours. While the concept can be tricky for ...

I fell in love with the city and Japan’s culture defined by pleasantries ... In Tokyo, it’s legal to drink on the street, but people rarely do. However, it’s illegal to smoke cigarettes in public — so ...

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 ...