Uchide Park is presumed to be the model for the “park with a monkey cage” that appears in “Hear the Wind Sing,” a 1979 work of fiction by Murakami, 73. It has become a pilgrimage site for ...

Tourists watch the staff at Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, outside Kyoto, feed wild Japanese macaques. Such provisioning has helped boost monkey numbers. They’re so abundant now that more ...

The Japanese macaque vanished from the Highland Wildlife Park on Sunday, following in the footsteps of another similarly liberty-minded snow monkey which escaped the same tourist attraction in 2008.