Music Apr 30, 2020
Taiko group Kodo makes a plea for donations amid the COVID-19 crisis
by Gianni Simone
With Japanese drumming group Kodo forced to cancel this year's tour, the group has made an appeal for donations and equipment.
National Sep 26, 2019
Eleven years after return to the wild, crested ibises eyed to boost Sado tourism
A little more than a decade after the release of crested ibises back into the wild, the city of Sado and others are looking to the endangered birds as a possible tourism resource. This year marks the 11th anniversary of the start of a project ...
National Sep 26, 2018
China plans to donate ibises to Japan in October amid warming ties
China is planning to donate a pair of crested ibises to Japan in October as a symbol of friendship — the first such donation in more than a decade — amid warming relations between the two countries, Japanese government sources said Wednesday. The two countries ...
National May 1, 2016
Third chick born to wild ibis pair confirmed as sibling of second bird seen earlier
The Environment Ministry said it has found a third crested ibis chick hatched in the wild on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, a sibling to a second chick first spotted two days prior. The chicks' parents were both born in the wild on the island in ...
National Aug 20, 2013
Ibis reintroduction program sees fledging success
by Junji Ueda
Kei Osada, 41, is the man behind the recent success of a government effort to reintroduce the crested ibis as part of a captive breeding program for the species that once became extinct in the wild in Japan. In the three years since he took ...