From Pikachu to Totoro, these onigiri rice balls are as cute as they are delicious-looking!
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Learn about this sad sumo jargon while enjoying a few photos of sumo wrestlers petting cats!
What better way to usher in a new year in Japan than with a cute collection of dogs in kimono?
With so many celebrities and businesses with their own social media accounts, how can you make sure you attract users and get them to follow you? McDonald’s does it by making you see their food in a whole new way.
Our favourite family of Munchkin cats (and a dog!) do battle with a motorised duelling Yoda in this adorable video!
Sagamihara City is offering Sailor Moon marriage certificates sporting an image of JAXA’s Hayabusa spacecraft.
An artist tweeted a photo of “the process of turning a mushroom into an owl,” and commenters were amazed. But should they have been more skeptical?
Cats love to squeeze themselves into all types of cramped spaces, and this winter, they’re taking up residence inside shirt sleeves.
If you listen closely, you can still hear the squeals of kawaii echoing across the internet.
It really is the year of the hamster in Japan, as pet owners vie for top spot in a Hamster Championship Series on Twitter.
Now you can enjoy a vacation in cool anime style with Sailor Moon travel accessories in six character designs.
The medieval Scrolls of Frolicking Animals burst into the mainstream with museum exhibits. Soon, they’ll also be available in local gachapon machines!
Gudetama, the charmingly unmotivated raw egg character from Sanrio, is the star of the menu at his very own cafe in Osaka.
No drinking out of the toilet for this classy cat.
Pikachu continues to zap brightness into our lives, this time as stationery in hand-drawn patterns!
These holiday greeting cards from Japan are so cool you have to see them to believe they’re real.
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