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At the golf course shown in this video clip, lions are visible from the green of the 9th hole: The golf course happens to lie immediately adjacent to Gunma Safari Park and it advertises this unique experience to golfers who also want to have a look...

On Saturday night’s episode of “Shimura Zoo,” genius chimpanzee Pan-kun learned how to feed fish to a penguin: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

Shibu Onsen, the town in Nagano that is world famous for its snow monkeys that bathe in natural hot springs, has a bit of a problem: It would seem that some of the monkeys have grown so used to humans that they no longer fear running into houses and...

Pingping, the 21-year-old man who was a mere 29 inches tall, has died: The Chinese-born man, who became a record-holder in March 2008, was taken to hospital in Rome for treatment but passed away on Saturday. It is understood he died of heart complica...

Charlie Angela of Al Jazeera files a highly misleading report about how a species of porpoise “may become endangered” because it is being hunted by fishermen in Iwate prefecture: If the reporter had bothered to go beyond the press release handed to...

Don’t worry about those ominous black ships in the harbor, Commodore Perry is chillin’ and relaxin’ inside this Daihatsu “black ship,” so he must like Japan: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (S...

Cute kid + Japanese spoken in weird foreign accents = advertising success? — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

Hugh Jackman is the new face of Asahi Super Dry beer: In addition to the above commercial, he is also appearing on billboards around Tokyo. — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

Japanese police raid an apartment being used to grow marijuana: Mr. Park, the man who was caught inside the apartment with 78 plants, was arrested. He insisted that the plants were not being grown for business purposes. — Akihabara News – Gadgetry...

Prepare to see Ric O’Barry and other animal rights activists harass and annoy the residents of Taiji, Japan in their own TV series: A new television series about the controversial dolphin trade in Japan, tentatively titled “Dolphin Warriors,” has bee...

The Academy Award results are in, and it appears that award for best documentary went to The Cove, a film about American animal rights activists fighting against the Taiji dolphin hunt. Fuji TV went to the small town of Taiji to see how locals would...

American snowboarder Shaun White, who won a gold medal for his halfpipe performance at the Vancouver Olympics is visiting Japan right now. He was interviewed by Fuji TV and TBS: Shaun has been to this country some 30 times and DVD’s of his snowboa...

As far as I know, Kirin is not selling its alcoholic “Cola Shock” drink outside of Japan. However, it’s newest commercial shows Meisa Kuroki working as a waitress at a restaurant in some English-speaking country where everyone wants to drink Cola Sh...

Has anyone seen this woman dancing around outside Shinjuku station in Tokyo? Her name is Aya Sato and she is 33-years-old. She says she once tried to work like a salaryman, but had to quit her job. Now she apparently spends most mornings dancing o...

If you’re familiar with Thomas Friedman’s work, you may have come across his idea of pizza serving as an instrument for sharing cultures: I take some succor from the fact that the most popular food in the world today is not the Big Mac, but pizza. An...

A romantic music video of Ken Shimura and chimpanzee performer Pan-kun from last night’s episode of “Shimura Zoo”: And a look back at some of Pan-kun’s silliest costume moments: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Yo...

A cafe in Kochi city that sells a Sakamoto Ryoma Latté: It costs 860 yen for the special drink. Read more about it in Japanese at this site. You can find a map to the cafe here. Also spotted recently in Japan: Sakamoto Ryoma ramen chips. — Akihab...

Ananova reports on a washing machine for dogs in Japan: More and more people are making use of machines such as one installed at a pet supermarket called Joyful Honda in the suburbs of Tokyo. It washes and blow dries dogs and cats* for the equivalent...

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage talks to a Japanese TV program about the U.S.-Japan alliance and the issues surrounding the relocation of the US Marine air station at Futenma: Armitage is introduced as an important member of the Re...

“Patriotic” South Korean netizens are apparently continuing their cyber attacks on 2-channel, Japan’s most popular web forum site. The initial 2-channel response to the attacks was a cyber attack on the website of the ultranationalist group VANK, wi...

The latest in Aflac’s series of Japanese commercials that have its famous duck dance with a cat: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

A special episode of “Toribia no Izumi” aired on Japanese TV saturday night, performing several awesomely weird experiments. A viewer submitted a letter wanting to know how much blasting power a toilet washlet spray would have if replaced by a fire h...

A commercial for a new Onimusha pachinko machine: Pachinko commercials, like the exterior of pachinko parlors, tend to look pretty cool. Unfortunately, the product they advertise is an incredibly boring waste of money. — Akihabara News – Gadgetry...

What is your favorite burger restaurant? If you’ve never tried any private one unlike McDonald’s, Mos, Lotteria, First Kitchen, or the ones that you can find anywhere else, here are examples of yummy burger restaurants in Tokyo that are strictly sele...