The last known Japanese wolf was caught in 1905 in Higashi-Yoshino, Nara Prefecture. Komori asked a research staff member about the specimen but could not receive any clear answers because the ...

The Japanese Wolf Canis lupus hodophilax, the Japanese wolf, was once widespread across the islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.Revered in Japanese folklore as a guardian of the mountains and ...

OMACHI, Nagano Prefecture--The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain of central Japan--but finding solid proof ...