Did you know that unko, or poop, is a symbol in Japan’s kawaii culture? In Japan, poop isn’t always seen as something gross — it’s often portrayed as cute and funny, especially in manga and pop ...

The new Instagram-ready space is a celebration of defecation, wrapped up in the Japanese kawaii aesthetic. Toby Fehily visited, and found much to ponder As a mildly lactose-intolerant heavy lactose ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Japan’s culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo. Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what would be in ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The Museum of Natural History. The Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of … Poop? In Japan, a new pop-up museum is encouraging travelers to get over their self-consciousness about “unko” (that ...

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 ...