
Other historical records indicated Japanese wolf preferred to prey on wild or domesticated horses. The wolf was first recorded in writings from AD 713.

It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Hokkaidō wolf. Its binomial name derives from the Greek Hodos (path) and phylax (guardian), in reference to Japanese folklore, which portrayed wolves as the protectors of travellers. The Japanese wolf is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. Japanese Wolf Canis Lupus Hodophilax (aka Honshū wolf) by Philipp Franz von Siebold. She has brownish orange socks that fade to white at the feet, with white shoes with fur around the top. Beneath this collar is a tied pink plaid scarf, the same colour and pattern as her pleated skirt. On the folded collar of her shirt are two white stripes. The ends of the long sleeves are white and have two stripes on the cuffs, and her gloves are white. She has a large fluffy white fur collar above her sailor-style uniform shirt, which is the same brownish orange shade as her hair. Her tail is curved inwards and down, and is primarily the same colour as her hair with some light white on the inside.

Her eyes are a bright orange and lack shine like the other extinct Friends. Japanese Wolf has long primarily light brownish orange hair with white tips on her bangs, the tips, and on tufts sticking out below her ears, which are tipped with a darker shade and are white on the inside. The Japanese Wolf is a type of extinct Friend that appeared in original Kemono Friends game.
