Sleepy Little Otter Can’t Go To Bed Without Cuddling Her Stuffed Piggy
Sakura (@kawauso_sakura) is a one-year old otter, and it’s pretty fair to say that she is the lead star of an otter popularity boom on…
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SpongeBob SquarePants As An Anime Is Pretty Dramatic
With a little creative imagination, it’s been shown that talented fans can create some pretty great would-be anime openings, even if they don’t have a…
Japanese Animation Artist Brings Ukiyo-e Prints To Life With Charming Gifs And Back To The Future
Ukiyo-e, which translates to “image(s) of the floating world,” is a genre of Japanese art that thrived from the 17th to 19th centuries. Artists produced…
Stingray Chowing Down On Squid At Japanese Aquarium Gives Visitors Inky Horror Show
Several Japanese aquariums structure their facilities as a lead-up to one big star-attraction tank, with several different types of sea creatures swimming along with each…
1,500 Pikachus Invade Yokohama For The Annual Pikachu Festival–This Time With Boats And Blimps!
In what has become an annual event in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai area, the The Pikachu Outbreak Festival runs for nearly a week long (8/9-8/15 this…
Tokyo’s New Life-Size Gundam Will Be Bigger And Better, And Even Has A Moving Head
You might remember the bittersweet end to the 18 meter tall landmark Gundam statue in Tokyo’s Odaiba last march. The nostalgic life-size statue of the…
Demonic Eyed Japanese Poop Robot That Spews Diarrhea Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
Whether it’s the breathtakingly lifelike fish at Japan’s hotel staffed by robots, or Softbank’s cute domestic-assistant robot Pepper singing Beethoven in a choir, Japan’s constantly…
Footage Shows Abandoned Areas Of Fukushima Being Reclaimed By Nature 7 Years Later
Tetsuro Takehana, a photographer for the Asahi Shinbun, spent 10 years of his childhood in Fukushima Prefecture, recently returned to the region to capture photography…
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Welcomes Akira Comparisons With Projection Mapping Event
Whatever the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony turns out to be, it would be hard to imagine the proceedings not highlighting the many aspects of…
Japan’s Latest Idol Unit Is A Group Of 60 Miner Mannequins
When it comes to regional promotions, Japanese towns in search of escaping the shadow of the bigger cities in the country and showing off their…
Creepy Evolving Japanese Baseball Mascot Hunted Down And Stripped By Other Mascots At All-Star Game
You may remember that the latest in Japan’s long line of bizarre but adorable mascots literally “evolved” on the baseball field. The newest mascot for…
Foxy Kitsune-Mask Band Rocks Out To Utada Hikaru, Lupin, Arrietty, and More On Traditional Japanese Instruments
We’ve seen the wonderful sounds of traditional Japanese instruments fuse old and new in fantastic ways before, with several artists treating us to traditional Japanese…
Japanese Comedian Naomi Watanabe Makes Vogue Debut With The Most Relatable Makeup Video Ever
Having made her mark in the world as a Japanese plus-size comedian (who does a mean impression of Beyoncé, by the way), Naomi Watanabe isn’t…
Unbearable Summer Heat Inspires VR Work System Where Employees Are Replaced With Teddy Bears
“I’m starting to think it’s absolutely nuts to have to commute to work in this blazing hot weather.” This kind of thought has surely crossed…
Friendly Cockatoo Masters The Use Of Cat Teasers To Play With Kitten
As much as we’d love nothing more than to hang out all day and entertain our animals, we could always use a little help when…