TOBA, Mie Prefecture--Images of a Baikal seal cub with a “human-like” face went viral after the Toba Aquarium in Mie Prefecture showed off its cute and friendly resident named Niko ...

"Oh it’s easy to go to the rubber and hard to return, / Men leave their corpses, women depart as ghosts." Visitors to a colonial plantation might have heard this sorrowful song drifting above the soft ...