Kid's Nature Magazines – Issue 143 – Wild Japan

In a freezing mountain stream in Japan, a giant salamander has guarded the same bend of river for fifty years. Nearby, a red-crowned crane throws its head back and calls across two kilometres of marsh – its windpipe coiled like a trumpet inside its chest.

Wild Japan puts curious 7–11s right there among the hot springs, folklore and freezing rivers of Japan's wild islands.

Inside this issue:

• A Letter From a Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel – Momo glides through the treetops on stretched skin, part of a species once recorded crossing almost the length of a football pitch in a single glide.
• Japan: One Country, Wild Worlds – explore an archipelago of 14,125 islands.
• Charlie Meets a Giant Salamander! – an interview with a "den master" who has guarded the same burrow for fifty years.
• Red-Crowned Crane: Endangered Creature Feature – meet the bird whose extra-long windpipe coils inside its chest like a trumpet, carrying its call more than two kilometres across the marshes.
• Natural Wonders of Japan – Amy's diary of Japan's wildest places.
• Meet Japan's Trickster Animals – Simon investigates the real foxes, raccoon dogs and badgers behind centuries of shapeshifting folklore (there's even a 1924 court case to untangle).
• Which Japanese Animal Are You? – find your wild Japanese match.
• Moksha's Mission – ten-year-old ocean advocate Moksha Roy on protecting Japan's ocean life from plastic.
• Eco Kids Quiz Planet – puzzles, quizzes and two posters to collect.
• Design Your Own Yokai! – dream up a brand-new folklore creature.

Ad-free, plastic-free, and made for kids who love real science and real stories.