Cats, goats, owls — they're all old news. 2016 is the year of the tanuki. A tanuki, commonly mistaken for a badger or a raccoon, is actually an atypical species of dog known in Japan. Twitter user ...

Since 7th century A.D., Tanuki have been cast in Japanese folklore as sneaky but benevolent rascals. More recently, a “raccoon dog” starred in the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko and featured in Super ...

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When I first came to Japan in the early 1960s I was fascinated by stories about tanuki, which were then called "raccoon dogs" in English because of their slight similarity to the North American ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Kyoto-based indie studio Denkiworks has announced its debut title, Tanuki: Pon's Summer, as part of Xbox's Tokyo Game Show broadcast. The cozy ...

The cutest animals of the week are these raccoons that look like dogs, or maybe they're dogs that look like raccoons. The animal is something called a Tanuki, and indeed, is of the latter persuasion ...

Genshin Impact's latest leak is a bit different from the usual ones, and not only does it leak a new character Kokomi, but also a new creature coming to the game, which is quite adorable to say the ...

The tanuki is a kind of canid native to Japan. Over the years it has gotten quite a reputation… or rather, its testicles have. Raccoon dogs are not related to raccoons, but they are related to dogs.

WHEN TANUKI TO GO opened — Wednesday, Feb. 21, at dusk — the only exterior indication of activity in the kitchen of the former Crystal Palace was a red light glowing above the back door. On the second ...