Since moving to Tokyo last year, my friends back in New York have made a habit of sending me viral posts about Japan. That's ...

He’s the rejected monkey who has become the internet’s adopted animal baby. But while you cannot take Punch home, you can curl up with his companion — if you can find one in stock, that is.

If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks, chances are you’ve seen him: a tiny gray-brown monkey dragging a big, stuffed orangutan around Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo. His name? Punch-kun, or Punch ...

Animal rights activists say that viral online content about animals like ‘Punch-kun’ has the potential to drive the illegal ...