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Naked mole-rats aren’t naked any more thanks to a new line of Japanese capsule toys

• Master Blaster
  May 21, 2023
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The next step is to get them to iron the shirts.

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• (animals • capsule toys • crazy • figures • funny • Hadaka Janai Deba Nezumi • Kitan Club • naked mole-rats • weird)

680-year-old Shinto ritual of horses running up earthen “wall” draws animal abuse complaints【Vids】

• Casey Baseel
  May 16, 2023

Horses that make it to the top are seen as signs of good harvest, but those that don’t may die.

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• (animal abuse • animal welfare • animals • culture • horses • shinto • shrines • society • Tado Shrine • tradition • video)

Krispy Kreme releases Japanese fox doughnuts in Japan!

• Oona McGee
  Apr 22, 2023

Indigenous fox enjoys the spotlight in one part of the country.

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• (animals • characters • COK • cute • donuts • doughnuts • Ezo • Ezo Red Fox • food • fox • foxes • Hokkaido • Kita Kitsune • kitsune • Krispy Kreme • Krispy Kreme Japan • sweets • weird)

Real-kitty-litter snow globes coming soon to Japan’s capsule toy vending machines【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2023

All the excitement of your cat pawing up a storm at its litter box with none of the mess to clean up!

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• (animals • capsule toys • cats • cute • funny • gacha • gachapon • Kitan Club • snow domes • snow globes • vending machine toys • weird)

Off the beaten Japan travel path in Amami Oshima’s mangrove forests【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Apr 2, 2023

If you’ve been skipping Amami Oshima on your trips to Japan, you’ve been skipping a beautiful, uncrowded gem.

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• (Amami Oshima • animals • beautiful • canoeing • COK • cool • Kagoshima • mangrove • nature • outdoors • SNJO • travel)

Visiting the Japan Snake Center, the Gunma zoo dedicated entirely to snakes

• Dale Roll
  Mar 9, 2023

Venom Extraction Room’s Snake Meet and Greet is just the start of the weird fun at this facility hidden in the mountains of east Japan.

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• (animals • COK • cool • Gunma • Japan Snake Center • reptiles • science • snakes • SNJO • travel • weird • zoo • zoos)

Poison Poison Poison Poison Poison Poison Poison Poison Poison Exhibit now on in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Mar 6, 2023

I wonder if it’s really about poison though…

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• (animals • aquariums • COK • crazy • exhibits • funny • Modokuten • poison • sightseeing • Sunshine Aquarium • Tokyo • travel • weird)

These are the hidden-gem catspotting neighborhoods of Nagasaki【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 26, 2023

Two off-the-beaten-path parts of Nagasaki City that are perfect for feline fans.

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• (animals • cats • COK • cute • Nagasaki • Nagasaki City • SNJO • travel)

Vending machine for cat treats installed in Osaka, and it meows at you!【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Feb 25, 2023

It’s a veritable fancy vending machine feast!

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• (animals • Cat Day • cat food • cats • COK • Dydo • Japanese vending machines • Mon Petit • Neco Republic • Osaka • Purina • vending machines)

Octopus tentacle ear plugs coming to Japanese capsule toy machines

• Master Blaster
  Jan 23, 2023

I’m a sucker for stylish ear protection.

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• (animals • capsule toys • crazy • fashion • gacha • gachapon • Ikimon • octopus • Octopus Earplugs • squid • Tako no Mimisen • tentacles • weird)

New unlimited cat subscription service in Japan blasted online

• Master Blaster
  Dec 27, 2022

380 yen per month gets your choice of cat, but what is the real cost?

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• (animal abuse • animal adoption • animal welfare • animals • cats • COK • Neko Hodai • Nora Neko Bank • pet ownership • pets • subscription service)

Eight boars drop dead around Japan’s Killing Stone【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 18, 2022

Stone said to imprison evil fox spirit spilt in half earlier this year.

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• (animals • boars • crazy • creepy • fox spirit • Killing Stone • kitsune • Nasu • scary • weird • wild boars)

Japanese fish that beat Pokémon Sapphire are retiring from video game streaming【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2022

End of the line for the gamer fish that became some of the very best.

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• (animals • anime • cool • fish • Mutekimaru • pets • Pokemon • Pokémon Sapphire • video • video games)

Japanese cop tells wild boar “I’ll shoot ya” if it comes closer, boar wisely heeds warning【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 22, 2022

Officer protects citizens without the use of deadly force.

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• (animal control • animals • boars • funny • police • video • weird • wild boars)

Pet crematorium in Japan was burning trash with animals for more than 10 years

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 11, 2022

”I just figured that’s how things were done.”

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• (animals • COK • crazy • cremation • garbage • pets • trash)

Nara unveils new vending machines that sell deer crackers

• Oona McGee
  Nov 6, 2022

If only the animals had coins to buy them.

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• (animals • COK • deer • deer crackers • Japanese vending machines • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • paper • shika • shika senbei • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • vending machines)

Japan has too many adorable Akita dog license plate designs, needs help picking just one

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 15, 2022

Which Akitas should represent Akita on cars in Japan?

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• Japan
• (Akita dog • Akita Inu • animals • cars • cute • dogs • license plates)

Dog shows up inside commuter train headed for Tokyo【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2022

Everybody takes the train in Japan, it seems.

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• (animals • COK • crazy • dogs • funny • Odakyu Odawara Line • pets • trains • weird)

Nagasaki man lifts his apartment toilet lid to find terrifying surprise inside

• Dale Roll
  Oct 8, 2022

I’m sure no one ever wants to see this in their at-home toilet…or any toilet, for that matter. 

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• (animals • COK • crazy • funny • pets • scary • snakes • surprise • toilet • Toilets • weird)

A calendar filled with pictures of furry panda butts is here to improve your gloomy Mondays

• Katie Pask
  Sep 23, 2022

Be healed by a year’s worth of panda butts.

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• Japan
• (animals • calendar • crazy • cute • funny • pandas • weird)

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