Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The origins of today’s Japanese dog breeds can be traced back thousands of years. After millennia of crossbreeding and fine-tuning ...

Japan is introducing sniffer dogs at its airports to prevent large amounts of undeclared cash from being moved out of the ...

Choosing a name for your new furry friend is an exciting first step in pet ownership. If you have an admiration for Japanese culture, selecting a Japanese name for your dog can be a meaningful way to ...

The Japanese Dog Preservation Society, Nihon-ken Hozonkai, was created to maintain and preserve six specific native Japanese dog breeds. This organization is similar to the American Kennel Club (AKC) ...

A trailblazer of the assistance animal world could use the Support Dogs charity’s pioneering work as the blueprint to introduce autism assistance dogs to Japan. Sam Tawada, a respected figure in the ...

Leave it to Japan to keep dogs and cats cool by turning them in to part pet, part robot. A Tokyo clothing maker created a wearable fan for pets to make their walks a little cooler amid an unbearable ...