It can even lead to games involving Timmy and Tommy Nook, the adorable employees who work for Animal Crossing's iconic tanuki. While there are a lot of unanswered questions about the Nooks ...

The tanuki legacy lives on in popular ceramic figures, and fans of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing will be familiar with landlord and shop owner Tom Nook, who is labelled as a raccoon in western ...

Inspired by Japan’s lovable “raccoon dogs,” the latest entry in the bakery’s revolving animal bread series just went on sale at the start of this month. In Japanese folklore, tanuki are known as ...