The Japanese giant salamander is one of the world's largest amphibians and is native to Japan's freshwater rivers and streams.

The earliest known Japanese animation was produced in 1907, and the first feature-length anime film was released in 1945.

Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in 2003, is a popular manga and anime series that follows a high school student who gains the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in a special notebook.