STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Who can resist taking a selfie with a turd? OK. Don’t answer that. But there apparently are tens of thousands of people doing just that in Yokohama, Japan, where a new museum is ...

They said it couldn’t be done. They said it shouldn’t be done. But they didn’t know just how much the world needed Japan’s new poop museum. In the Instagrammable-fashion of The Museum of Ice Cream you ...

A major success since opening in March earlier this year, the temporary Unko Museum (‘unko’ is Japanese for ‘poop’) in Yokohama is about to get a permanent site in Tokyo’s amusement district Odaiba.

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As a mildly lactose-intolerant heavy lactose consumer with an anxiety disorder and an affinity for coffee, I am very familiar with the idea of poop being urgent. But I’m struck by a different sense of ...

Now available via capsule toy machines across Japan, this peculiar squeeze toy doubles as a stress ball – the ideal antidote for the mayhem that keeps coming our way this year. Called the ‘Bikkuri Big ...

At first glance, the tangle of disco-bright neon lights hanging on a white wall in front of me would not look out of place in a modern art gallery or urban fashion boutique. The neon installation is ...