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Wildlife photographer discovers Japan’s first-ever baby Alashanian pipistrelle while observing bats near a local school.
Affordable studio apartments are filled with features to make your cat happy in your new home.
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.
Pretty much everyone who visits Nara stops by the park to feed crackers to the deer, so are the smaller crowds leaving them hungry?
Full points for speed, enthusiasm, and especially adorableness.
Not going anywhere for a while? Let this awesomely adorable video keep you company!
In today’s installment of incredibly niche gachapon capsule toys, we coo over these very cute teeny-tiny barricades.
Stylish shoulder bag opens up a whole new world of playtime with a number of handy features.
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.
Kamehamehas of cuteness from a guy who’s actually more muscular than the Dragon Ball hero he’s cosplaying as.
The only cafe in Japan where you can enjoy the company of a capybara, the world’s largest living rodent.
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