Pig cafes are the latest craze pulling in tourists in Japan. The surprisingly quiet, clean and companionable animals have been bringing a smile to people's faces at Tokyo's Mipig Café. "It was ...

Japan is familiar with foreign franchises. McDonald’s arrived in 1971 (PDF) and began like many chains as a high-end fad (in Ginza, nonetheless) before becoming a ubiquitous part of local culture. One ...

Cafes are a great place to have a cup of coffee, talk, and relax. Sofas are nice and all, but the world’s cafes really need to take a lesson from a handful of Japanese cafes: Hammocks. In Japan, there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Calling someone a pig isn't really an insult in these cafés because that's exactly what its residents are. The Mipig Café in ...

For anyone too shy to speak with other humans, Japan has invented another way to find friends. Cat cafés, yes you read that correctly, are springing up in Japan as havens for cat lovers looking to ...