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Cool Japanese Cat Names. Japanese pop cultural exports like anime, fashion, video games, and even food are so enormously popular worldwide that in Japan, this fad phenomenon is referred to as ...
Japanese pet insurance company iPet Insurance recently conducted a client survey to determine the top 10 most popular dog names for 2024 - at least, the most popular ones among their canine ...
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.
The phenomenon of inugami spiritual possession was a kojutsu (also called "kodō" or "kodoku", a greatly feared ritual for employing the spirits of certain animals) that was already banned in the Heian period that was thought to have spread throughout the population, and it was known to involve cutting off the head of a starving dog and burying the dog at a crossroads to inflame its grudges as ...
The Japanese “pet boom” can be traced back to 2003 where it was estimated that the combined number of cats and dogs in Japan have outnumbered the number of children. [19] The estimated number of pets and children under 16 in Japan was 19.2 and 17.9 million respectively in 2003, and 23.2 million to 17 million in 2009.
In the village of Kumagaya, Atetsu District, Okayama Prefecture (now Niimi), it is said that a kasha is avoided by playing a myobachi (Japanese: 妙八) (a traditional Japanese musical instrument). [8] Japanese folklore often describes the kasha as humanoid cat-demons with the head of a cat or tiger and a burning tail.
[332] [333] The name is a combination of the word "animal" and the Japanese term "bosa bosa" which means both disheveled hair and idling time away. [334] [335] The group includes many different animals like rabbits, birds, cats, dogs, and squirrels, living alongside humans. [332] Designed by the Sanrio designer Amy who also created Gudetama.
Cyborg Kuro-chan (サイボーグクロちゃん, Saibōgu Kurochan) is a Japanese children's manga series created by Naoki Yokouchi , serialized in Kodansha's Comic BomBom magazine. The series would debut its first chapter in September 1997, later releasing eleven volumes of manga compilations between 1998 and 2002 with each manga covering a ...