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Japan’s new apartments for singles with cats let you live with the only companion you need
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2020 - Tweet
Affordable studio apartments are filled with features to make your cat happy in your new home.
Here’s how to be a Shiba Inu’s favorite person
- Casey Baseel
Apr 1, 2020
A trip to a Tokyo dog cafe and a chance encounter with a Shiba Inu master leads to an epiphany for our canine-loving reporter.
- Japan
- (animal cafes • animals • COK • dog cafes • dogs • mambeshiba • pets • Seiji Nakazawa • Shiba Inu • SNJO)
With foreign visitor numbers to Nara Park plummeting, are the city’s deer in danger of starving?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 30, 2020
Pretty much everyone who visits Nara stops by the park to feed crackers to the deer, so are the smaller crowds leaving them hungry?
- Japan
- (animals • COK • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • deer • deer crackers • Nara • Nara Park • shika senbei • SNJO • travel)
Today, let’s all take a moment to watch this amazing Corgi butt video from Japan【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 26, 2020
Full points for speed, enthusiasm, and especially adorableness.
Japan’s Cats and Dominos video warms the heart, makes us want to stay home and watch it all day【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2020
Not going anywhere for a while? Let this awesomely adorable video keep you company!
The Crocodile Who Dies in 100 Days is due to die today and people can’t bear it
- Oona McGee
Mar 20, 2020
Final day of a manga has the nation on the edge of their seats.
- Japan
- (animals • anime • art • artists • crocodile • cute • funny • Instagram • LOL • manga • twitter)
Block off your desk with adorable animal road blocks, as seen in Japan’s road construction
- Katy Kelly
Mar 14, 2020
In today’s installment of incredibly niche gachapon capsule toys, we coo over these very cute teeny-tiny barricades.
- Japan
- (animals • barricades • capsule toys • cute • gachapon • Kawaii • road blocks • road safety • weird)
Japanese Twitter amazed to learn that cats can be used as on/off switches for desk lamps【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 7, 2020
Let there be (cat-activated) light!
Japan now has diapers specially for cats
- Oona McGee
Mar 2, 2020
“Manner Wear for Cats” fits snugly around feline butts.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • cute • diapers • Manner Wear • nappies • new product • pets • Unicharm)
Fisherman attacked by wild boar jumping out of the ocean, defeats it with bare hands
- Master Blaster
Feb 27, 2020
Boars can do that apparently.
- Japan
- (animal attack • animals • crazy • fight • fishing • Nagasaki • sea • weird • wild boars)
Hedgehog Carry House from Japan lets you take your little pets with you wherever you go
- Oona McGee
Feb 26, 2020
Stylish shoulder bag opens up a whole new world of playtime with a number of handy features.
- Japan
- (animals • bags • crowdfunding • cute • hedgehog • hedgehog cafe • hedgehogs • Kawaii • pets • shopping)
Japan has a cat real estate agency, where every apartment lets you and your kitty live together!
- Casey Baseel
Feb 25, 2020
No need to ask “Are pets OK?” as long as your pet is a cat.
- Japan
- (animals • apartments • cats • Living in Japan • Neco Republic • pets)
Cats in Japan can now get digital resident cards in Kanagawa Prefecture
- Casey Baseel
Feb 17, 2020
Dog version also available.
Cute “koala” cat sings when she’s cuddled【Video】
- Oona McGee
Feb 11, 2020
It took a year for this injured stray to learn to trust her human family, but now she literally clings to them at their farm and flower shop.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • cute • cute. cats • Fukuoka • pets • singing • stray cats • twitter • viral video)
Hamster hadouken! Super-buff Japanese bodybuilder adds adorable animals to his flex videos【Vids】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 6, 2020
Kamehamehas of cuteness from a guy who’s actually more muscular than the Dragon Ball hero he’s cosplaying as.
- Japan
- (animals • bodybuilding • cute • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Z • funny • hamsters • Handsome men • muscles • pets • video)
Japan’s first-ever capybara cat cafe opens in Tokyo
- SoraNews24
Jan 30, 2020
The only cafe in Japan where you can enjoy the company of a capybara, the world’s largest living rodent.
- Japan
- (animal cafes • animals • cafes • capybara • capybaras • cat cafes • cats • COK • cute • food • pets • rescue cat cafe • Tokyo)
New study shows wildlife thriving in areas evacuated after Fukushima nuclear meltdown【Video】
- Eli Pang
Jan 18, 2020
As we reach almost a decade since the tragic incident which displaced over 100,000 individuals, Mother Nature makes her comeback.
- Japan
- (2011 earthquake and tsunami • 2011 Tohoku Earthquake • animals • Fukushima • Fukushima nuclear disaster • nature • University of Georgia • video)
Japanese Lucky Beckoning Cat banknote design is the faux money we wish was real
- Oona McGee
Jan 6, 2020
Manekineko cat currency is filled with lucky omens for the New Year.
- Japan
- (animals • art • beckoning cat • Beckoning cats • cats • cool • cute • manekineko • money • pets • stationery • yen)
How to use your real-life cat to automatically boost your Pokémon’s stats in Sword and Shield【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 21, 2019
No time to spend time playing with your Pokémon during camping sessions? Genius Japanese gamer figures out how to have your actual kitty do it instead.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • clever • cute • funny • pets • Pokemon • Pokémon Sword and Shield • video • video games)
Your cat or dog can be King of the Pirates with One Piece anime cosplay outfits for pets【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 20, 2019
Kitty B. Luffy and Bowwow Chopper.
- Japan
- (animals • Bandai • cats • Charapeti • cool • cosplay • cute • dogs • One Piece • Petio • pets)
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- Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
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New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
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