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Kantō Mountains
Kantō Mountains or Kantō Range () is a mountain range on the west side of the Kanto Plain in central Japan. It stretches from the western part of the Kantō region to the eastern part of the Chubu region across multiple prefectures and the capital city of Tokyo. Geography The Kantō Range extends along the western side of the Kanto Plain from the western part of the Kantō region to the eastern part of the Chubu region. It spans Tokyo and the Gunma Prefecture, Gunma, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama, Kanagawa, Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, and Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamanashi prefectures. The mountains divide the Kantō Plain from Chūbu region and consists of two subranges. The Chichibu Mountains in the north featuring steep slopes and canyon valleys and the Tanzawa–Misaka–Tenshu ranges in the south with an upland terrain partially buried by ancient deposits from Mount Fuji. Demographics and economy Part of the mountains form the protected Chichibu Tama Kai National Pa ...
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Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of . It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), and List of islands by highest point, seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. Mount Fuji Hōei eruption, last erupted from 1707 to 1708. It is located about southwest of Tokyo, from where it is visible on clear days. Its exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow field, covered in snow for about five months of the year, is a Japanese cultural icon and is frequently depicted in art and photography, as well as visited by sightseers, hikers and mountain climbers. Mount Fuji is one of Japan's along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. It is a List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments, Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's Monuments of Japan, Historic Sites. It was added to th ...
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Japanese Beech
The name Japanese beech can refer to two different species of beech tree, both native to Japan. *''Fagus crenata'', also called Siebold's beech, (, in Japanese) *''Fagus japonica ''Fagus japonica'', known as the Japanese beech, Japanese blue beech or in Japanese as ''inubuna'' ("dog buna") or ''kurobuna'' ("black buna"), is a deciduous tree of the beech family Fagaceae. Description It reaches 25 metres in height.''W ...
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Eurasian Bullfinch
The Eurasian bullfinch, common bullfinch or bullfinch (''Pyrrhula pyrrhula'') is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. In Anglophone Europe it is known simply as the bullfinch (English regional, Shropshire: plum bird), as it is the original bird to bear the name bullfinch. Taxonomy and systematics The Eurasian bullfinch was Species description, formally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the Binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Loxia pyrrhula''. It is now placed in the genus ''Pyrrhula'' that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The Latin word comes from the Greek (a flame-coloured bird, from , from : Pyrrha), a 'worm eating bird' that is mentioned by Aristotle. The Latin name for the Eurasian bullfinch had been used in 1555 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his ''Historiae animalium (Gesner), Historiae animalium'' ...
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Red-flanked Bluetail
The red-flanked bluetail (''Tarsiger cyanurus''), also known as the orange-flanked bush-robin, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and related species, are often called chats. Habitat It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous forests with undergrowth in northern Asia and northeastern Europe, from Finland east across Siberia to Kamchatka and south to Japan. It winters mainly in southeastern Asia, in the Indian Subcontinent, the Himalayas, Taiwan, and northern Indochina. The breeding range is slowly expanding westwards through Finland (where up to 500 pairs now breed), and it is a rare but increasing vagrant to Western Europe, mainly to Great Britain. There have also been a few records in North America, mostly in western Alaska as well as one on San Clemente Island off the southern California coast and one overwi ...
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Japanese Leaf Warbler
The Japanese leaf warbler (''Phylloscopus xanthodryas'') is a leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae). The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage. It is closely related to the Arctic warbler and the Kamchatka leaf warbler, to which it was formerly considered conspecific. It is found throughout Japan, except on Hokkaido; it winters to Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au .... References External links eBird website Japanese leaf warbler Birds of Japan Japanese leaf warbler Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe {{Phylloscopidae-stub ...
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Kajika Frog
The Kajika frog or Buerger's frog (''Buergeria buergeri'') is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Japan where it can be found on Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku islands. It is locally threatened by habitat loss caused by dam building and construction of concrete riverbanks. Description As with other species in the family Rhacophoridae, the female is bigger than the male. Males are 3.5–4.4 cm and females are 4.9–8.5 cm. Their bodies are flat which allows them to easily hide between rocks. They are grayish-brown in color with speckles which makes for protective camouflage on rocks. There is a dark T-shaped pattern between their eyes. They are able to change their shade of color to a certain extent based on their surroundings. There isn't much individual variance in color. Suction pads grow on the tips of their fingers and toes. Their eggs are dark brown with a diameter of 0.2 cm. Their mouths are big and have suction pads that allow them to ...
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Japanese Serow
The (''Capricornis crispus'') ( 羚羊) is a Japanese goat-antelope, an even-toed ungulate. It is found in dense woodland in Japan, primarily in northern and central Honshu. The serow is seen as a national symbol of Japan, and is subject to protection in conservation areas. Adult Japanese serow stand about tall and weigh . They are black to whitish, and colouring lightens in summer. The fur is very bushy, especially the tail. Both sexes have short, backwards-curving horns, and are difficult to distinguish by sight. Japanese serow are found in dense mountain forests where they eat leaves, shoots, and acorns. They are diurnal and feed in early mornings and late afternoons. Serows are solitary, or gather in couples or small family groups. The animal marks its territory with sweet-and-sour-smelling preorbital gland secretions, and males and females have separate territories that may overlap. In the mid-20th century, the Japanese serow was hunted to near-extinction. In 1955, th ...
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Asiatic Black Bear
The Asian black bear (''Ursus thibetanus''), also known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It is distributed from southeastern Iran, Pakistan, India and the Himalayas to Mainland Southeast Asia, the Korean Peninsula, China and the Russian Far East to the islands of Honshū and Shikoku in Japan. It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and is threatened by deforestation and poaching for its body parts, which are used in traditional medicine. Taxonomy Ancestral and sister taxa Biologically and morphologically, Asian black bears represent the beginning of the arboreal specializations attained by sloth bears and sun bears. Asian black bears have karyotypes nearly identical to those of the five other ursine bears, and, as is typical in the genus, they have 74 chromosomes. From an evolutionary perspective, Asian black bears are the least changed of th ...
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Rhododendron Degronianum
''Rhododendron degronianum'' is a species of rhododendron native to northern parts of Honshu, the largest island of Japan, where it grows at altitudes of about . Description ''Rhododendron degronianum'' is a shrub that grows to in height, with leaves that are narrowly to broadly elliptic, or linear lanceolate. Its flowers are funnel-shaped and pink to white. Taxonomy ''Rhododendron degronianum'' has three subspecies: * ''Rhododendron degronianum'' subsp. ''degronianum'' – leaves with fawn to reddish indumentum * ''Rhododendron degronianum'' subsp. ''heptamerum'' * ''Rhododendron degronianum'' subsp. ''yakushimanum'' – flowers pink fading to white, leaves with white indumentum on top, white to tan indumentum on bottom Yakushimanum hybrids The highly variable subspecies ''R. degronianum'' subsp. ''yakushimanum'' (formerly ''R. yakushimanum'') is found wild only on the island of Yakushima, south of Kyushu Island of Japan, whose mountainous habitat and high rainfall make ...
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Erythronium Japonicum
''Erythronium japonicum'', known as Asian fawn lily, Oriental fawn lily, Japanese fawn lily is a pink-flowered species trout lily, belonging to the Lily family and native to Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East (Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands) and northeastern China (Jilin and Liaoning). It is a spring ephemeral, blooming April–June in woodlands. It is known as ''zhūyáhuā'' () in Chinese, ''eolleji'' () in Korean, and ''katakuri'' () in Japanese. ''Erythronium japonicum'' has a stem up to long, although as much as 30% of the stem may be underground. Bulb is elongated, up to long but rarely more than . Leaves are broadly elliptical to lanceolate, the blade up to long and wide. Flowers are solitary, rose-colored. Applying the generic common name ''trout lily'' may be somewhat of a misnomer, because in the Japanese species, the individual plant may or may not exhibit the flecked dark markings on the leaves, which is emblematic of that common name (see gallery below). Pr ...
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Veitch's Fir
''Abies veitchii'', also known as Veitch's fir or Veitch's silver-fir, is a species of fir native to Japan from the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. It lives in moist soils in cool wet mountain forests at elevations of 1500–2800 m. It is very shade-tolerant when young, but is not long-lived. The name is derived from John Gould Veitch, who saw the common species on Mount Fuji in 1860 and identified it for European botanists. Description It is a coniferous evergreen tree growing at a fast rate to 25–30 m tall. The crown is narrowly conical with horizontal branches and pubescent shoots. The shoots are pubescent, with short brown hairs. The leaves are needle-like and flattened, 1–3 cm long and 2 mm broad. They are glossy dark green above with two conspicuous bluish white stomatal bands underneath, and the tips are notched. The foliage is dense and points forward along the shoot, with the inner leaves being shorter and more erect than the lower leaves. The cone is p ...
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Erman's Birch
''Betula ermanii'', or Erman's birch, is a species of birch tree belonging to the family Betulaceae. It is an extremely variable species and can be found in Northeast China, Korea, Japan, and Russian Far East (Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Kamchatka). It can grow to tall. It is noted for its peeling bark, which can sometimes be removed in sheets, but usually shreds and hangs from the trunk and under branches. Yellow-brown male catkins A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in ''Salix''). It contains many, usually unisexual flowers, arranged cl ... appear with the leaves in spring. Erman's birch is widely cultivated outside its natural range. The cultivar 'Grayswood Hill' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=243 File:Betula ermanii SE4 02 MG 5041.jpg, Street tree ...
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