Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino in 1979, is a popular anime series that helped to popularize the mecha genre of anime, which features giant robots.

In Japan, there is a sport called bo-taoshi that involves two teams trying to knock down each other's pole.

The Japanese spider crab is the largest arthropod in the world, with a leg span of up to 4 meters (13 feet).