Calicos are almost always female, so a male kitten in a Kumamoto rescue trap surprised the vet. Fearing resale, the group kept him. The orange gene was pinned down in 2025; "one in 30,000" has no cited source.
Restorers found 95 rolled sheets inside the secret Kannon of Shojuin Temple in Kyoto, one with ink writing not yet studied. Why Buddhist statues held objects, and how to visit the temple.
A private system will rate Japan's onsen on five criteria for the water in the tub and name 21 three-star sites on October 26. How it differs from notices required since 2005 and a label abolished in 2019.
About 1,000 crows roosted on the Asian Games race walk course in Nagoya, and a hospital ruled out firecrackers, so the city hired a falconer. In Japan, scaring off birds is a falconer's everyday job.
A Ukrainian soldier scored Japanese snacks and cup noodles out of 10. His zine was reprinted in at least seven times the quantity expected. Who sent the box, and what instant noodles already meant in Ukraine.
A wild fox dropped a mole at a home in Yonago, Japan, and walked away. It has visited about seven times. Japan's internet thought of a school folktale; a mole researcher has a more practical theory.
Japan had 2,730 sento left at the end of fiscal 2024. Under a 1946 ordinance, prefectures still cap their prices, and Tokyo calculates its cap like a utility rate. It rose to 600 yen in August 2026.
Kikkoman's third US soy sauce plant has opened in Jefferson, Wisconsin, a $560 million investment. Fifty-five years after a village voted 54 to 14 on the first one, North America now supplies two-thirds of group profit.
Thirty players throwing together need about 64,201 rounds to leave one winner. The widely quoted 63,917 counts only the wait until the first non-tie, and just 4.61 throws settle anything.
A PNAS study rebuilt the songs of 9 extinct species from 20 fossils in Inner Mongolia. The 5 to 7 kHz result lands in the same band as Japan's 4.5 kHz bell cricket, listened to for 1,000 years.
Shingo, a village of 1,919 in northern Japan, has had a tomb of Jesus since 1935, declared by a promoter of a forged chronicle. Almost nobody there believes it, yet the Shinto rite hit its 62nd edition in 2026.