The English-language trailer for legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s likely final movie, “The Boy and the Heron,” dropped Thursday. And in the clip of the animated flick, actor ...

Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Co AT ABOUT 4 FEET TALL, the great blue heron is the largest heron we have around. The first one of the season showed up on our pond in early July and began to wade ...

The first known reference to a heron in Japanese literature might be in the Kojiki, says Mariko Nagai, professor of Japanese literature at Temple University Japan. The Kojiki is Japan’s oldest ...