CAMP FOSTER — Okinawa is a haven for outdoor activities during summer, but also a place where some dangerous land and sea critters can put a serious crimp in the fun. Take poisonous habu snakes, for ...

It is more likely that you have seen a habu snake in a bottle of local rice liquor Awamori, in Okinawa, than that you've spotted one slithering by the wayside. Even so, habus are very common in the ...

NAHA -- A highly poisonous "habu" snake has been found on Okinawa's Aguni Island, an area thought not to be a habitat of the species, the prefectural government said. "We don't know whether the snake ...

NAHA—A venomous elegant pitviper was found dead on Miyakojima, a subtropical southern island long believed free from poisonous snakes. The snake was discovered at a port on the island, about 330 ...