Animal Crossing: New Horizons loves to celebrate cultural gems by offering limited-time festive items to players. Naturally, Nintendo wasn't going to miss out on the Japanese Tanabata festival.

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A shrine in central Japan is defending a popular ritual that often sees the horses taking part mistreated or injured. Animal rights activists say its about tourism and money, not history.

Until this year, the festival had been considered a jewel ... Dr Koichi Aoki, a vet from the Japanese Coalition for Animal Welfare, has been campaigning for 21 years to lower the wall and slope ...

The death of a horse during a centuries-old riding festival in Japan has prompted an animal rights organisation to accuse the event’s organisers of animal cruelty in the name of “entertainment”.

In Japan’s picturesque Mie prefecture ... of a contentious battle between tradition and animal rights. Activists have long denounced the festival for the serious injuries inflicted on the ...

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The director says his animated 'Isle of Dogs,' which opens the Berlin festival, is inspired ... Bureau Chief The most common flavor of Japan’s weird animal isles is feline.

Nintendo has released a new 3DS theme dedicated to the recently released Wii U title Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, at least in Japan. The static theme features an adorable image featuring ...

a Japanese film festival, Japan Talkies, is all set to be organised in Kolkata from August 23. The festival will be inaugurated by the Consul General of Japan in Kolkata NAKAGAWA Koichi along with ...

Japanese animal rights campaigners believe they have finally made a breakthrough in their long-running campaign to halt an annual festival in which horses are often seriously injured as they attempt ...