200 people in Ito City, Japan , raced small wooden tubs down a 1,300 foot river....  ...Photo: CBS News | Previously: Crossing the Sea of Japan in a Bathtub

Photo: Hisagi [Wikipedia]The coal-mining colony of...  ...lony of Hashima Island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan , is called the Battleship Island because of its h...

The Bakemono Zukushi scroll was painted in Japan sometime in the 18-19th centuries by an unknown a...  ...ries by an unknown artist. There are 24 legendary Japanese monsters depicted on the scroll. Pink Tentacle ha...

Japan often seems like a cartoon, or a mythical place t...  ...ng one's truck as if it were a ride at the fair. Japan is to crazy what the Middle East is to oil: sitti...

They may look like the subspecies of an Ewok but they're actually monkeys with incredible abilities and the strangest habits; food seasoning and hot tub bathing are but a few. See more photos at Environmental Graffiti....

Pink Tentacle has larger versions of 14 beautifu...  ...rsions of 14 beautiful travel posters produced by Japanese steamship companies. These were from the early 20...

Photo: Brendan Eagan A lot of churches have stain...  ...windows, but the ones in this church in Ikitsuki, Japan , were made from the wings of over 30,000 butterfl...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has an outstanding...  ...ine Arts, Boston has an outstanding collection of Japanese postcards from the early decades of the 20th cent...  ...decades of the 20th century. During this period, Japan was rapidly modernizing, and woodblock prints fel...  ...d by the fresh, new look of...

Hanako-san is a girl ghost who haunts school toile...  ...occupied by the mysterious girl, who is known in Japanese as Toire no Hanako-san (lit. “Hanako of the toi...  ...Pink Tentacle. This story is part of a series on Japanese urban legends. Link

The twelve men who flew on the world's first nuc...  ...deployed "Little Boy" over the city of Hiroshima, Japan . The youngest was only twenty at the time. For th...