A popular tourist attraction in Japan known as the "rabbit island" is seeing a surge in predators. Tourist food leftovers are drawing rats, crows, and wild boars from neighboring islands. The 900 ...

Ōkunoshima is a small island in Japan's Inland Sea that's become a tourist destination for one reason: it's crawling with friendly rabbits. Hundreds of them. They hop up to visitors expecting snacks.

In 1929, the army began manufacturing chemical weapons, leading to the testing of poison gas on rabbits brought to the island. This sparked the belief that workers may have released these captive ...

An animal-cruelty suspect has indicated responsibility for the deaths of dozens of rabbits on Okunoshima island, a wartime weapons production site that is now a tourist hotspot called “rabbit island,” ...

Japan has wiped out all mongooses on a subtropical island, officials said, after the animals ignored the venomous snakes they were brought in to hunt and preyed on endangered local rabbits instead.

An island east of Hiroshima is a place to make friends with a population of nearly 1,000 wild rabbits. Otherwise known as Rabbit Island, Okuno-jima is home to a dark past. During World War II, this ...