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 ...

The Japanese wolf is a subspecies of the gray wolf, which inhabits wide areas in the Northern Hemisphere. The Japanese variety is said to have lived in mountains on the main islands of Honshu ...

13-year-old Hinako Komori has brought a long-forgotten Japanese wolf specimen back into the spotlight. While touring Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Hinako’s deep ...