Japan has two honey bees, the native Apis cerana japonica (Japanese honey bee) and the imported Apis mellifera (Western honey bee).
The Japanese honey bee is one of the subspecies of Apis cerana. Other subspecies can be found in Korea, Taiwan, China, Thailand and several other asian countries.
More and more people have started keeping Japanese bees as a hobby, using a simple hive called a pile box hive (stacked box hive) in Japan.
Pile box hive is simple and need less work to keep wild honeybees.
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