The distribution of Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) at the northern edge of the species' range appears to be shaped by ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...

Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract then squeezing themselves out of the predator's gills. In a scientific first ...

TOKYO >> The European Union could imperil Japan’s imported supply of affordably priced eel with a proposal to make all 19 eel species subject to trade regulations under the Convention on International ...

TOKYO — It’s another hot summer in Tokyo. The sun burns like a furnace in the sky, and Tokyoites trudge down city sidewalks, sopping the sweat off their foreheads with handkerchiefs. All that ...

You have no doubt heard the phrase slippery as an eel and a new study looking at baby Japanese eels specifically has revealed ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation “red list” in a move that may ...

TOKYO >> A hike in the price of eel is expected prior to this summer’s “doyo no ushi no hi” — traditional eel-eating days that fall on July 20 and Aug. 1 this year — due to poor catches of young eel ...