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(Video) An Asian Sheepshead Wrasse Named “Yoriko” in Hasama’s Underwater Park (Tateyama, Chiba)

2021-12-112022-05-19

The Hasama Underwater Park is located just on the border between Tokyo Bay and the Pacific Ocean, and it is…

Rausu’s Drift Ice Cruise and the Drift Ice in the Port of Rausu・The Steller’s Sea Eagle and White-tailed Eagle

2021-12-012022-08-13

This is a winter report from the Shiretoko Peninsula, Rausu (Hokkaido). This year the drift ice season in Rausu was…

Winter in Eastern Hokkaido, Rausu. Drift Ice Cruise and the Steller’s Sea Eagle

2021-11-212022-08-13

The Drift Ice Cruise of Rausu, Hokkaido. This year the drift ice arrived in Rausu around mid-February. This is a…

Winter On The Notsuke Peninsula, The Freezing Rain and Ezo Sika Deer

2021-11-112022-08-13

In February, the Notsuke Peninsula had an ice storm. When air temperatures drop below freezing and the ice rain, water…

Steller’s Sea Eagle On The Drift Ice(Rausu, Shiretoko Peninsula)

2021-11-012022-08-13

This is a Steller’s Sea Eagle that we observed during a Drift Ice Cruise from Rausu, Shiretoko Peninsula. It is…

Spectacular View! Rausu Drift Ice Cruise at Dawn (Rausu, Shiretoko Peninsula)

2021-10-212022-08-13

This is a report from our February 28th Rausu Drift Ice Cruise. We were told to be at the harbor…

A Sperm Whale Calf Approached The Ship! (Ogasawara Islands)

2021-10-112022-02-22

The water of Chichi-jima (Father Island) in the Ogasawara Islands, at depth of 1,500-2,000meters, are known as a place where…

Beyond Cape Shiretoko: Mother and cub brown bears of Shiretoko Peninsula

2021-10-012022-08-13

On a nice calm day, with no wind or waves, we cruised from Aidomari around Cape Shiretoko in search of brown…

Pink Salmon Swimming Upstream : Autumn on the Shiretoko Peninsula

2021-09-212022-08-13

Pink Salmon, called “Kurafuto masu” in Japanese, return to the rivers on the Shiretoko Peninsula. These salmon came from the…

Shiretoko Peninsula – Brown Bears Catching Pink Salmon

2021-09-112022-08-13

In late August, the Shiretoko Peninsula sees the return of the Pink salmon. However, due to a lack of rainfall,…

Spectacled Guillemot at Terui Island / Akaiwa Observatory

2021-09-012024-05-21

>For information and tours of Teuri Island, click here! Finally, I had the chance to make it to Terui Island;…

Ocean Sunset at Terui Island, with the Spectacled Guillemot and Rhinoceros Auklet

2021-08-252024-05-21

>For information and tours of Teuri Island, click here! No where else in the world can you see these rare…

Rock Ptarmigan of Tateyama – Photography Tour Report (May15-16, 2021)

2021-08-152022-08-12

This is a report for the “BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR” by Gaku Tozuka. Just to check out the conditions, I visited…

Homecoming of the Rhinoceros Auklet (Teuri Island – Hokkaido)

2021-08-052024-05-21

>For information and tours of Teuri Island, click here! Teuri Island is the largest breeding ground in the world for…

(Video) Hammerhead Sharks of the Yonaguni Island

2021-07-252022-05-19

Japan’s westernmost island is the Yonaguni Island. It is said that on a good visibility day in the summertime, you…

(Video)The First Flight of Dawn with the Geese in Kabukuri Wetlands

2021-07-152022-02-22

Kabukuri-numa in Miyagi Prefecture is a place where you can see geese which form large flocks together from Tohoku, Northern…

(Video)Geese Going to Roost at Dusk (Kabukuri-numa Wetlands)

2021-07-052022-02-22

This is a winter report from Japan’s goose migration at Kabukuri-numa in Miyagi Prefecture. The video below shows scenes of…

(Video) Humpback Whale Watching & Swim in Amami Oshima

2021-06-252022-02-22

This is the highlight reel of the late March Amami Oshima Swim with Whales Tour. The main attraction of Amami…

Cackling Geese Wintering in Japan’s Kuril Islands

2021-06-152022-02-22

The Cackling Goose in the Kuril Islands Once deemed extinct in the Kuril Islands when it was still under Japanese…

Rock Ptarmigan

Rock Ptarmigan of Tateyama – Photography Tour Report (April 23- 24, 2021)

2021-06-052022-08-12

This a report for our “BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR” by Gaku Tozuka. Rock Ptarmigan of Tateyama – Photography Tour Report (May15-…

Long-tailed Tit : Winter Photography Tour (Nemuro, Hokkaido)

2021-05-262022-08-13

This is a report of the Winter Eastern Hokkaido Photography Tour. After getting photos of the Steller’s sea eagles and…

Mother and Calf Humpback Whales (Amami Oshima)

2021-05-182022-01-26

This is a report of the Amami Oshima Whale Watching Tour from early March. Every year from January to March,…

The Largest Breeding Ground for the Short-Tailed Albatross: Tori-shima Cruise

2021-05-102022-02-22

This is a report of the Tori-shima Nature Cruise aboard the Nippon Maru. Our 2021 cruise departed from the Yokohama…

Icy Lake Furen: Steller’s Sea Eagle and White-Tailed Eagle (Lake Furen, Hokkaido)

2021-04-302022-08-14

2021 Report from Winter in Hokkaido Photography Tour In mid-February, the temperatures were high and with less snow on the…

Love Is In The Air For The Hokkaido Fox! (Teshikaga, Hokkaido)

2021-04-202022-08-13

2021 Winter Report from Eastern Hokkaido Photography Tour Towards the end of the second half of the tour, we could…

Scuba diving in Bonin Islands (OGASAWARA)

2021-04-102022-05-19

This video introduces one of the best diving sites in Japan, the Ogasawara Islands, a World Heritage Site. Due to…

Bird Photography : Steller’s Sea Eagle and White-tailed Eagle (Rausu, Hokkaido)

2021-03-312022-08-13

Winter 2021 Eastern Hokkaido Photography Tour Report This time, for the Rausu Drift Ice Cruise, there was no drift ice…

A Hokkaido Sika Deer Carrying the Head of Another Deer (Entangled Antlers) in Notsuke Peninsula

2021-03-212023-03-07

In 2021, during the winter season, one of the trending topics in Eastern Hokkaido was the Notsuke Peninsula’s “Entangled Antlers”…

At the Ogasawara Islands, During Humpback Whale Season

2021-03-132022-02-22

One of the highlights of visiting Ogasawara (also known as Bonin Islands) in the winter months is seeing the humpback…

Hokkaido’s Ural Owl Feeding on a Large Field Mouse

2021-03-052022-02-22

Eastern Hokkaido Winter 2021 Report Being told that the owls aren’t in their nests that much this year, we went…

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