It’s not like there’s much difference between a man in an orangutan costume and an actual orangutan, right? Every year, just as winter is beginning to loosen its grip on much of Japan, someone dresses up like a wild animal and is chased down by zookeepers holding nets and wielding tranquilizer dart shooting rifles. As strange as this may sound, …

It’s time for your daily dose of cute. In June of 2017 Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo welcomed into the a world an adorable little panda. Xiang Xiang, as she would come to be known, sparked a serious case of panda fever across much of Japan but little by little it seems like that fever has broken. Whereas last summer and fall …