A "stowaway" snake brought a Japanese high-speed bullet train to a standstill on the Nagoya-Tokyo route yesterday, with a delay of nearly 20 minutes on the famously punctual service.

The poisonous snake is three species of Japanese viper, Tsushima and Yamakagachi, and it seems that Yamakagashi grows the largest among poisonous snakes. And a researcher who gives food to the ...

In our Afan Trust woods here in the Nagano Prefecture hills we have six kinds of snakes, the most venomous of which is the mamushi (Japanese viper). This is a small snake, rarely exceeding 80 cm ...

* Japanese Name: Nihon mamushi * Scientific name: Agkistrodon blomhoffii * Description: Copperheads are reddish-brown, coppery colored snakes of the viper family. They have thick bodies, 40-70 cm ...

Habushu is a Japanese snake whiskey which is said to have medicinal properties ... this drink is prepared by steeping a fang-bearing pit viper from the Ryuku Islands in whiskey for several months.

For the first time, a Chinese province has exported live snakes to Japan, thepaper.cn reported. The 200 kilograms of short-tailed mamushi, valued at $114 million, left Jiaxing, China's Southeast ...

Venomous Vipers Mysteriously Leave Forest to Invade World Cup Host City, Russia Sends Teams to Capture Published Jun 29, 2018 at 9:28 AM EDT Nicolsky's Viper, pictured above, is a native endemic ...