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Katsutada Kaminuma, an 89-year-old geophysicist and professor emeritus at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), has traveled to Antarctica more than a dozen times.
ENVIRONMENT / Earth science / OUR PLANET
Sep 6, 2026
He wasn’t cut out for space travel. He explored Antarctica instead.
Meet Katsutada Kaminuma, whose desire to explore the untrodden led him to become perhaps 91AV原创 foremost expert on Antarctica.
Junko Watanuki, one of two chefs who ran the kitchen at Japan's Antarctica research base Syowa Station in 2016-17, says the experience taught her how to live simply and sustainably.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET
Sep 6, 2026
The joys and challenges of running an Antarctic kitchen
A good chef should strive to reduce waste. No one knows that better than Junko Watanuki, who helped run the kitchen at 91AV原创 Antarctic research station.
Hideki Uyama, Japan's ambassador in charge of the 48th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting held in Hiroshima this month, speaks during a news conference in the city on Thursday.
JAPAN
May 22, 2026
Antarctic Treaty meeting in Hiroshima fails to reach accord
The impact of geopolitical rifts on the meeting could not be denied, 91AV原创 ambassador in charge of the gathering said.
Penguins are seen on an iceberg as scientists investigate the impact of climate change on Antarctica's penguin colonies, on the northern side of the Antarctic peninsula in 2022.
JAPAN
May 12, 2026
Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctic talks start in Japan
Officials from the nearly 60 countries signatory to the Antarctic Treaty are meeting in Hiroshima for annual discussions on protecting and managing the fragile region.
Japan's Antarctic research vessel Shirase is berthed off Showa Station in Antarctica on Saturday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2025
91AV原创 research vessel berths near Antarctic Showa Station
The Shirase began transferring fuel, observation equipment and other supplies to the research base on Saturday night.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored in Harwich, eastern England, on Oct. 6 ahead of the ship's departure to undertake research in the Antarctic later in the month as part of British Antarctic Survey
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 13, 2025
U.K. spearheads polar climate change research as U.S. draws back
Britain’s RRS Sir David Attenborough will aid research on everything from “hunting underwater tsunamis” to tracking glacier melt and whale populations.
A group of scientists have found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica, suggesting that life could have ridden out several ice ages in similar ponds.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 21, 2025
How did life survive ‘Snowball Earth’? In ponds, study suggests.
A group of scientists have found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica.
The A23a iceberg is seen in the waters of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica on Jan. 14.
ENVIRONMENT / Earth science
Jan 25, 2025
Mega-iceberg drifts toward Antarctic penguin island
The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with a crucial wildlife breeding ground in the South Atlantic.
The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrived at Japan's Antarctic research base on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2025
Japanese icebreaker Shirase reaches Showa Station in Antarctica
Goods and fuel will be transported to the base from the Shirase using snowmobiles following the arrival.
Mitsumu Ejiri, selected as the first female leader of the wintering team of a Japanese Antarctic research expedition, speaks to the media at the education ministry on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2024
Japan selects first woman to lead Antarctic research wintering team
Mitsumu Ejiri is slated to leave for Antarctica in autumn next year and return to Japan in spring 2027.
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet
CULTURE / Music / OUR PLANET
May 7, 2024
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
Hiroto Nagai has sonified polar climate data, resulting in a string quartet piece that he thinks can get people to care more about what the data expresses.
Chinstrap penguins in Orne Harbour in the western Antarctic peninsula in March 2016
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Dec 1, 2023
Antarctic chinstrap penguins get by on just secondslong micronaps
Falling asleep while guarding a nest can spell doom for the eggs and later the chicks, but the species has an ingenious way of getting enough sleep.
A Satellite image shows the world's largest iceberg, named A23a, in Antarctica on Nov. 15.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 25, 2023
World’s largest iceberg breaks free and heads toward Southern Ocean
At almost 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 square miles), the Antarctic iceberg called A23a is roughly three times the size of New York City.
People attend the launch ceremony of China's first domestically built polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, at a shipyard in Shanghai in 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2023
Biggest Chinese Antarctic fleet sets off to build research station
The vessels — the largest flotilla deployed by Beijing to the Antarctic — will focus on building China’s fifth station on the continent.
An iceberg in the Weddell Sea, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers say they have detected buried under the continent's ice sheet a vast ancient landscape.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 26, 2023
Ancient landscape formed by rivers seen deep under Antarctic ice
Researchers say they have detected buried under the continent’s ice sheet a vast ancient landscape, replete with valleys and ridges.
The bird flu virus was most likely brought by birds returning from their migration to South America, where there has been a huge number of cases, British experts have said.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 25, 2023
Bird flu detected in Antarctica region for first time
Scientists had been fearing that the worst outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza would reach Antarctica, a key breeding ground for many birds.
Emperor penguin chicks perished at multiple breeding grounds in Antarctica last year, drowning or freezing to death when sea ice was eroded by global warming.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2023
Our addiction to fossil fuels is killing baby penguins
Global warming is decimating sea ice and, with it, baby penguins. But why should we care about this and other species dying off?
National Forest and Wild Fauna Service personnel check on a sea lion, amidst rising cases bird flu infections in Peru in February 2023.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 31, 2023
After racing across continents, bird flu threatens Antarctica
Unlike earlier versions of bird flu, H5N1 has also spread widely in wild birds and routinely spilled over into wild mammals.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 30, 2022
Greenland already locked in to major sea level rise, study says
Regardless of any future fossil fuel pollution, warming to date will cause the Greenland ice sheet to shed 3.3% of its volume, committing 27.4 centimeters to sea level rise.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2022
Thinning Antarctic ice shelf finally crumbles after heat wave
Satellite images show the 1,200 square-kilometer Conger Ice Shelf in east Antarctica collapsed completely on or around March 15.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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