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Family Mart unleashes sweet cats in Japan for Cat Day, but do they taste as good as they look?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 22, 2025
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New collection brings the cute to this Japanese convenience store chain for a limited time.

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• (animals • Cat Day • cats • COK • combini • convenience stores • cute • Family mart • Japanese convenience stores • konbini • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

Our feline reporters test out Japan’s soup for cats to find if it makes for a purrfect treat

• Elliot Hale
  Feb 21, 2025

Would you share a meal with your cat? This soup might make you consider it.

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• Japan
• (animals • cat food • cats • COK • food • K. Masami • pet food • pets • SNJO • soup • Soup For Cat • Soup Stock Tokyo • taste test • weird)

Breakthrough in chimpanzee pee made by Kyoto University

• Master Blaster
  Jan 30, 2025

Monkey see, monkey pee… I know they’re apes. It’s a figure of speech so get off my back.

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• Japan
• (animals • biology • chimpanzees • Kyoto University • science • urination • Wildlife Research Center)

Man kicks bunny to death on Japan’s Rabbit Island, may have killed as many as 77 others

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 23, 2025

Police arrest man who apparently traveled half-way across the country to kill a rabbit with his foot.

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• Japan
• (animals • bunnies • COK • crazy • crime • Okunoshima • Rabbit Island)

Japanese aquarium installs fake people to keep apparently lonely sunfish company【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 22, 2025

Aquarium won’t have real visitors for several months, but in the meantime this fish has some cardboard ones.

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• (animals • aquariums • COK • cute • fish • Mola mola • moving • Shimonoseki • sunfish • touching • video)

Japanese man grabbed by wild monkey, chased for hundreds of meters while jogging

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 14, 2025

This wasn’t part of the workout plan.

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• Japan
• (animal attacks • animals • COK • crazy • monkeys • weird)

Starbucks Japan reveals new Valentine’s Day goods for 2025

• Oona McGee
  Jan 10, 2025

Limited-edition mugs, cups and tumblers serve up a whole lot of love with the cutest cats around!

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • cute • drinkware • glasses • goods • holidays • limited edition • mugs • shop • shopping • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers • Valentine's Day)

Bear breaks into house in Japan, quickly begins spending winter exactly like Japanese people do

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 26, 2024

Even bears can’t resist the lazy luxury of kotatsu, apparently.

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• Japan
• (animals • bears • COK • crazy • cute • funny • kotatsu • video • weird)

Starbucks Japan reveals new winter holiday goods to wrap up 2024

• Oona McGee
  Dec 25, 2024

Mugs, tumblers and limited-edition Stanley cups with Hokkaido’s shimaenaga snow fairy as the star. 

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• Japan
• (animals • birds • Christmas • Christmas 2024 • cute • drinkware • ermine • glasses • goods • holidays • limited edition • mugs • shimaenaga • shop • shopping • snow fairy • Stanley • Stanley cup • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • tumblers)

Japanese politician threatens to send bears to people, wants Loony Tunes-style anti-bear bombs

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 19, 2024

Governor doesn’t specify whether his desired bear-fighting drones would drop anvils or some other, less cartoony payload.

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• Japan
• (Akita • Akita Prefecture • animal attacks • animals • bear attacks • bears • crazy • nature • politicians)

Skirt that will make cat cafe cats love you supposedly found at Uniqlo’s sister brand

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2024

“They act like they just inhaled catnip.”

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• Japan
• (animals • cats • denim • GU • jeans • pets • skirts • Uniqlo)

Adorable baby hippo Moo Deng is now an adorable Mister Donut donut!

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 14, 2024

Thailand’s superstar pygmy hippo receives the highest honor that Mister Donut can bestow upon it, but not in Japan.

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• Japan, SE Asia
• (animals • cute • donuts • Mister Donut • Moo Deng • sweets • Thailand)

Kyoto cookies let you create your own edible 3-D forest world

• Oona McGee
  Nov 24, 2024

Little Forest Cookie Can is like eating a page out of a storybook.

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• (animals • autumn • bears • COK • comori • cookies • desserts • forest • Kyoto • sweets)

Children’s slippers stolen in night at Japanese preschool, police identify weasel who did it【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 18, 2024

No criminal charges will be filed.

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• Japan
• (animals • crazy • funny • kids • preschools • schools • uwabaki • video • weasel • weird)

Snuggle up to a Japanese Shiba Inu that looks real but is actually a cute hot water bottle cover

• Oona McGee
  Nov 18, 2024

A sweet and cuddly way to stay warm this winter. 

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• (animals • COK • cushions • cute • dogs • Felissimo • hot water bottle • interior • Kawaii • pets • Shiba Inu • shopping • shops)

Do bears strike first with their left paw when attacking people? Japan wants to know

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 18, 2024

And what experts say to do if a bear attacks you in Japan, regardless of how.

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• (animals • bear attacks • bears • COK • nature • outdoors)

Japan’s adorable new Nikukyu notebooks have the squeezable feel of cat and dog paw pads【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 7, 2024

And naturally the Shiba Inu is part of the lineup.

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• (animals • cats • COK • cute • dogs • notebooks • pets • Shiba Inu • stationery)

McDonald’s Japan now sells pies in…Dalmatian dog boxes

• Oona McGee
  Nov 5, 2024

Cookies and cream sankaku pie is served up in some scary cute packaging.

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• Japan
• (animals • art • cute • Dalmatians • design • desserts • dogs • fast food • food • Kawaii • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pets • pies • Sankaku Choco Pies • Shiba Inu • sweets)

What 1,000 yen can get you at McDonald’s in Japan right now

• Oona McGee
  Oct 23, 2024

Puppy pies are waiting to take you on a taste adventure.

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• Japan
• (animals • art • COK • cute • design • desserts • dogs • fast food • food • haruka takagi • Kawaii • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pets • pies • Sankaku Choco Pies • Shiba Inu • SNJO • sweets • taste test)

New McDonald’s Shiba Inu pie packaging wows customers in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Oct 16, 2024

Puppy pies add a dash of cuteness to the menu this autumn.

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• Japan
• (animals • art • cute • design • desserts • dogs • fast food • food • Kawaii • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • pets • pies • Sankaku Choco Pies • Shiba Inu • sweets)

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