In dog we trust: Japan's childless turn to canines
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In her spare time, 46-year-old Japanese eye surgeon Toshiko Horikoshi can be seen pushing a pram around elegant department stores as she shops for designer clothes.
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SEOUL, Feb 14 (Reuters Life!) - A South Korean biotech company is offering dog owners the chance to clone their pet through a service that can cost up to $148,000 for a puppy.
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Japan&#39;s first elderly care home for dogs is set to open this week, tapping into a growing market as the problem of ageing spreads from humans to the pet population.
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How Paxil arrived in Tokyo and redefined the way the Japanese think about melancholy.
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"Please, please, please, just give the dog back," Ellen DeGeneres wept on national TV last week. It was a moment that quickly established itself in the pop culture firmament, less for the plight of Iggy the adopted terrier than for the copious crying itself.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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It's Reg vs Rollo Do pets eventually resemble their owners? Or do owners get to look like their pets? It's heck of a conundrum - but one we might now be a little closer to solving. For the past fortnight it's been hard to escape the animated faces of "Joan", or "George" the graphical representations of what we're told is a new breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence. TV and newspapers, both highbrow and lowbrow, have flocked to report on the chatterbot. You can talk to Joan (or George) - the output of the British software project Jabberwacky - and think it's human!â¦
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OSAKA, Japan -- A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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TOKYO - Japan will get its first nursing home for dogs with round-the-clock monitoring by doctors and a team of puppies to help aging pooches feel younger, a pet products company said Wednesday.
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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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Japan's pre-eminent photographer of the postwar era is a master of a kind of redolent ambiguity that speaks both to his subject and to the nature of photography.
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Do you want a dog who's a "couch potato" or a "free spirit"? A growing number of animal shelters are using tests to match prospective owners with just the right pet
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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In Japan, the cell phone strap is a form of self-expression. By Lisa Katayama.