As Japan continues to see sweltering summer heat across the country, juvenile Japanese macaques in southwest Japan's Oita ...

Wild monkeys have attacked dozens of residents of a city in southwestern Japan in recent weeks, with reports of the animals crawling through house windows and striking from behind, as police step ...

The Japanese macaque, or snow monkey, is native to northern Japan. Francis Apesteguy / Getty Images. July 27, 2022, 9:36 AM EDT. By Arata Yamamoto and Dylan Butts.

Police in Yamaguchi, Japan, are on alert after a spate of monkey attacks against young children. The above stock photo shows a Japanese macaque, the species of monkey that's attacking the kids.

(CNN) — A wild monkey is terrorizing a small city in southwestern Japan, breaking into homes and attacking residents, officials said. Some 20 people in the Ogori area of Yamaguchi have been ...

The monkeys involved in Japan are macaques, or “snow monkeys”, which are widely known on the internet for pictures of the primates relaxing in hot springs.Yet the ones attacking people seem ...

The reign of Japan’s monkey queen has just begun. Last year, Yakei, a 9-year-old female Japanese macaque, fought several other macaques, including her own mother, to become the alpha of her troop.