Tag: Pets

Japan has a love for pets that manifests itself in ways that are almost always cute but also often bizarre. And so you get all manner of cat and dog fashion, plus genuinely inventive and clever ...

The Bridge has shared a story about Tokyo-based Anicall developing a wearable device for pets called Shiraseru Am. Literally meaning "notifier", Shiraseru Am is currently on pre-order via a ...

Japan's pet trends are never anything but surprising. Sometimes they are a bit silly, sometimes they are incredibly innovative. Sometimes they are just plain indefinable, such as the Oppo Dog Muzzle ...

Japan's love affair with the pet rarely fails to impress. And now just in time for New Year and the winter, we have the Katatsu Mobile Kotatsu Cat Table. While not an actual kotatsu (a table with ...

Pet trends are one of the funnest things we keep our eyes on. After all, what other nation on Earth has such a variety of dog fashion (dog wigs?!), cat cafes -- or even Architecture for Dogs? The ...

Anyone whose finger has been even intermittently on the pulse of Japanese cultural trends in the past couple of years has surely heard about cat cafes. Basically they're just what they sound like: ...

The original Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack created a HUGE stir when it was released a while back. Now our online store has got the follow-up, the Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack Closed. As the name suggests, it has ...

Japan and the cat. Was ever a nation more beguiled with the feline? From Sanrio's Hello Kitty to cat cafes and YouTube sensation Maru, the box-loving pet, the Japanese are mad about cats. It has ...

From emergency evacuation jackets and rescue carry bags, dog pedometers, and even canine communication translators (!?), the Japanese could at times be accused of taking their love of pets a bit too ...

Designer dog houses adapted to match the breed of the pooch? Well, it already no secret that the Japanese do love two things -- pets and good design -- so perhaps this marriage was inevitable. After ...