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Self-proclaimed Americans arrested for breaking into Punch the monkey’s Japanese zoo habitat

Intruder enters home of beloved stuffed animal-loving macaque.

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We go looking for a monkey mommy like Punch with Amazon Japan’s ultra low-rated orangutang plushy

Can the Laughing Sensor Orangutang bring a comforting motherly presence to our office?

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Japanese zoo’s monkey bonds with Ikea stuffed orangutang following abandonment by mother[Video]

Punch’s life started with a metaphorical gut-punch, but things are cuddlier, and happier, now.

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Manga fan has been throwing 1,000 karate punches a day waiting for Hunter x Hunter restart【Vid】

His faith remains untorn, but his gi is another story.

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Doctor punches patient in the stomach after his third visit to ER in one night

Doctors are generally regarded more highly by society than the rest of us schlubs, and rightly so: they bring us into this world, sometimes guide us out of it, and all the while in between they do their best to keep us alive.

But of course doctors are just people too, and they’re prone to the same vices and character flaws that anyone might have. For example, one MD at a hospital in Aomori Prefecture let his short temper show recently when he punched a patient in the gut during a late night visit.

But was the doc just a hothead? Or was this particular patient just so obnoxious that the assault was warranted?

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Chinese boy pees on public bus, passenger punches child’s mom【TomoNews Video】

Chinese citizens are often caught urinating and defecating in public places around Hong Kong and mainland China, but that didn’t stop this disapproving male passenger from taking matters into his own hands.

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“Knockout Game” invading Japan? Violent attacks in Kobe, Osaka spark debate

With so many cool toys coming to stores this year, it is hard to believe kids would be so bored that they create a game where the “players” score points for each real-world stranger they render unconscious. But two recent attacks in Kobe and Osaka are making Japanese netizens scared that the so-called “Knockout Game,” which has been widely reported in American media, has now landed on Japanese streets. Some academics are concerned that this is just another sign of America’s “society of violence” importing itself to Japan.

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