“Murder hornet” strikes in Hiroshima Peace Museum

It was announced yesterday that a child visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum was stung by a susume-bachi hornet.

Over 10,000 dead fish found on Shimane shore

Local media have been reporting the discovery of thousands of dead fish on the the Nakaumi lagoon on the Japan Sea coast of Shimane Prefecture.

A small town in Yamaguchi is under attack from wild monkeys. 8 people have been attacked in the area in the space of less than a week.

4 deer were hit by trains on the Geibi Line that runs between Hiroshima City and Miyoshi in the space of 90 minutes on May 30.

A 3.5m-long Great White Shark was caught un the nets of a Suo Oshima fisherman in the early hours off May 22.

A giant salamander which headed to town from its native habitat captured the attention and hearts of Hiroshima locals this week.

If you go down to the river you may be in for a big surprise. Black bears are waking up and there have been several sightings in the Hiroshima burbs.

An 80kg wild boar, one meter in length, was spotted in Ujina at 5am yesterday morning and proceeded to do

An 80kg wild boar was shot dead in Yano-nishi in Aki-ku in the early hours of Friday November 8 after