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That congratulations is completely sarcastic in case you missed that.

This is just awful.

The Japanese River Otter has just been officially declared extinct.

Tags: awful, carcass, extinct, fur, humans, hunt, japan, japanese, otter, play, pollution, population, river, so sad, spotted, wild

Sad…even insects are feeling the repercussions of this horrendous accident.

Since March 2011, Japan has been recovering from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Now, researchers are finding that butterflies from the heavily radiated areas are displaying mutations.

The mutations include

Tags: butterflies, earthquake, insects, japan, mutations, nuclear poer, radiaton, tohoku, tsunami

Run for your lives!!!! Or you can stay and cuddle…LOLz!

Rabbits in Okunoshima are bustling about on the empy streets.

Luckily, these cuties are easily satisfied with lettuce…and not human flesh!

Check out this super aDORable army of bunnies(above) RIGHT NOW!

Tags: cute, cuteness, eating, japan, rabbits, video

Here's your one chance to get a super power sick from radiation!

Thanks to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors that went down after Japan's 2011 earthquake, scaryass radioactive tuna are swimming around the cost of Cali!

Scientists know radioactive material leaked into the ocean cause they found lots of it in small fish and plankton. Howeves, they didn't expect

Tags: bluefin tuna, california, government, horrible, japan, ocean, radiative, scary, scientists

Now that's thinking on your…beak?

A pet parakeet escaped from his master's house early Sunday morning and he was coaxed into landing on a hotel guest's shoulder near Tokyo.

Piko was then taken to the police station and didn't speak until Tuesday, when he blurted out

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You might not have heard of him, but maybe you've seen that iconic waving cat from Japan.

He's always in statue form and his name is Maneki Neko.

He is said to bring good fortune and riches to those who own him.

His origin is an interesting story, so check out the above video to see where the legend of Maneki Neko comes from!

Tags: cat, japan, legend, maneki neko, statue, waving

In Japan, Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Sushi-Zanmai, a Japanese sushi chain, bought a 593-pound bluefin tuna.

And it cost him $736,000!!!!

It broke the record for most expensive fish ever sold, with the previous record only being $416,000.

Bluefin tuna are government controlled when it comes to how many can be caught each year and this one was particularly huge so that's why the price was so high.

On his reason for spending so much for a single fish, Kimura said:

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