Japan is asking the world’s governments to help protect the Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle. Japan is asking the world’s governments to help protect the Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle, a rare ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

Tokyo — A frustrated fisherman has confessed that he stabbed to death dozens of protected sea turtles on a southern Japanese island after they got caught in his fishing nets, local officials say.

Despite being endangered, green sea turtles are not protected by the country’s conservation laws. They often get tangled in nets, to the annoyance of fishermen. By Hikari Hida and Tiffany May TOKYO — ...

Okinawa Prefectural Police launched an animal cruelty investigation following the discovery of over 30 stabbed sea turtles on a beach in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Employees of the Sea Turtle Museum ...

(CNN) — At least 30 endangered green sea turtles were found on Thursday with wounds around their neck, near the remote Japanese island of Kumejima in southern Okinawa prefecture. Police began ...

Japan Railways went viral after it installed turtle tunnels to ensure no turtles were harmed in the making of the country’s railways. The West Japan Railway Company came up with the turtle-saving ...