The Jackson County Animal Shelter, 3770 Spring Arbor Road, has many pets available for adoption. Here are two of them. Titan is a 9-month-old male Akita mix pup. He has a big, fluffy hair coat which ...

That gift was Yume, a female Akita Inu dog. In return, Putin sent a fluffy gray cat to Akita Prefecture in 2013. As Tokyo and Moscow are often at odds over various issues, including fisheries ...

Akita, Yamagata and Niigata prefectures are ... They wove fabrics that incorporated fluffy fibers from wild plants or the down of wildfowl. And they developed unique quilting techniques to make ...