Japanese bookstore and oddity shop Village Vanguard has been having a lot of fun with “hyper-realistic” goods lately, with everything from giant anime masks to…

The kotatsu is a winter fixture in many Japanese homes. When the weather starts getting chilly, the heated table covered in a blanket becomes a…

When R&K Japan and Taiwanese goods retailer teamed up to mix traditional glass artistry with adorable pet aesthetics, tables around the world got a lot…

Being a short-legged little dachshund in a house full of cats sounds pretty hectic, but this dog is taking a zen approach to the daily…

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen strangely adorable dog butts turned into snacks, as shiba inu butts recreated as traditional Japanese sweets will show,…

Shiba inu are as cute as they come, but their miniature counterparts mame shiba inu (“Mame Shiba Inu” means “Bean Shiba Inu” in Japanese, a…

You may remember the popular bubbly shiba inu glasses made by R&K Japan and Goodglas, which take advantage use handmade blown double glass walls to…

In Japan, rather than signing documents and forms, people use a ‘hanko’, a stamp of their name. Also known as an inkan, it is specially…

You don’t have to peruse Japanese online retailer Felissimo’s YOU+MORE! series (a play on the pronunciation of “humor” in Japanese) that long to find out…

Shiba inu often sport a pretty stoic and thoughtful look, but at times they can become comically animated–as seen with the famously stubborn shiba celebrity…

Shiba inu seem to have a firm canine paw grip on the adorable dog corner of the internet, but their social media queen may be…

Japanese Twitter’s viral “muscle fox” and “right hook dog” may have just found a fitting rival for a triple threat death match. They may have…

Anything posted on the internet has potential to become a meme, but there is something about strangely simultaneously derpy and stoic nature of shiba inu…

Sekai no Owari ni Shiba Inu to 世界の終わりに柴犬と (literally, “Together with my Shiba inu at the end of the world”) is Japanese manga artist Yū…

In Japan, going to a yakiniku (grilled meat cuisine) restaurant is often looked forward to as an event, but yakiniku chain Ushisuke may have jumped…