In 1979, 30 mongooses were brought to Japan's Amami-Oshima island to fight the deadly Habu snakes that had terrorized locals for years. It seemed like a perfect solution—mongooses are natural snake ...

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Konami is one of the oldest video game companies in Japan. During the mid-2010s, the company shifted its focus to live service games, which now account for most of its total revenue. Reduction in the ...

Japan’s high-speed bullet train services were halted on its busiest line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake became tangled in the overhead wires, causing a power outage.. The incident ...

A bullet train in Japan came to a sudden halt on Wednesday after a meter-long snake climbed a power pole and short-circuited the electric supply. The bizarre incident took place at around 5:25 pm ...

Transportation Snake causes Japan bullet train service disruptions. Tokyo-Osaka shinkansen idled for around 90 minutes ...

One of Japan's busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage. Tokaido Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were ...

Snakes making their way onto Shinkansen lines is rare, though it’s not the first time this has happened. Last year, a 16-inch snake crawled its way into a passenger carriage on a train along the ...