Here's a story for an otherwise bleak Monday morning: Last week, a cat that'd been missing for more than three years—since 2011's devastating tsunami in Japan—was reportedly reunited with his family.

A Tokyo cab driver has been arrested for allegedly feeding his female passengers snacks laced with diuretics so he could satisfy his fetish for seeing them lose control and urinate on his back seat.

Today in #cool #teens, here's a Japanese kid who attached his toothbrush to the slide of the Airsoft version of a Glock 18c pistol, turning it into the most ridiculous automatic oral hygiene system in the world.

After a minor crime spree in the States, eternal teen Justin Drew Bieber is trying to stay out of trouble these days. Yesterday, he visited a shrine in Tokyo, a safe place where nothing could go wrong. Except inflaming decades-old tensions between China and Japan.

Here in America, the home of taste and sophistication, we drink "tea," to demonstrate that we are not crude savages. In Japan, however, no "thousands of years of cultural legacy" can hide the fact that they drink garbage coffee.

After 48 years on Japan's death row, Iwao Hakamada has been freed. A court "concluded investigators had likely fabricated evidence" in his trial. This month, both America's and the world's longest-serving death row inmates have been exonerated.

[A man prays in front of the main entrance of Okawa Elementary School, where 74 students went missing after the 2011 tsunami in northern Japan. Tuesday marks the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed 15,884 people and left more than 2,600 unaccounted for in vast areas of its northern coast. Image via Shizuo Kambayashi/AP.]

A popular Japanese beach near the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka has banned beachgoers with large "scary" tattoos. Which, if by scary you mean awful, is most sailors and Marines and Guy Fieri.

You may have heard of Islet Okunoshima, or, as it will henceforth be known, Fluffy Bunny Island. Fluffy Bunny Island is populated by friendly rabbits that have taken it over in the absence of any predators.

You probably like bunnies. How about several dozen bunnies?

Look at this little guy chasing a zookeeper at the at Matsue Vogel Aviary Park in southern Japan. Keep on running if you want, zoo guy, but you will not escape this tiny penguin.

[Fans touch wax figures of One Direction members Louis Tomlinson, center, and Liam Payne, second from right, during an unveiling ceremony at Madame Tussauds in Tokyo on Tuesday. Image via Koji Sasahara/AP.]

Japan executes its death row inmates only hours after the prisoner has been informed that they are about to be hanged, Danielle Wiener-Bronner over at The Atlantic writes.

It's being called the "scariest commercial ever," because it is.

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan today, precipitating what estimates say will be a 1-meter tsunami headed for the Fukushima coast. The U.S. Geological Survey says there is a "low likelihood" for fatalities or economic loss from this tsunami, according to the New York Daily News.

Have you heard that Japanese people "stopped having sex"? According to a recent and lengthy article in The Guardian that's getting shared all over Facebook, no one in Japan is getting laid. Unfortunately, it's not true. At all.

Why is a chorus of Japanese kindergartners singing the Dayman song from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? A better question would be, "why aren't all choruses of kindergartners everywhere singing the Dayman song from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?"

This video of a dog playing fetch with himself by the side of a river in Kobe, Japan, would be unbearably sad, if it weren't for the fact that the dog's owner is standing nearby, and that, according to the video's uploader, this is one of the dog's favorite pastimes.

Uh oh, radioactive water leaking into the ocean from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor is causing "an emergency," right now.

A 63-year-old man in rural Japan is suspected of murdering five people, burning down two homes, and leaving a haiku as a clue.