Japanese customarily take their shoes off before entering homes. The vanished shoes were all slip-ons the children wore indoors, stored in cubbyholes near the door.

In southwestern Japan, a kindergarten faced a puzzling shoe thief – until a security camera exposed the culprit: a mischievous weasel. Teachers and parents in Fukuoka grew alarmed as children ...

Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action. A weasel with a tiny shoe in its mouth was spotted ...

TOKYO/KOBE, Japan -- Nike shoes were once the unquestioned champion of a prominent long-distance relay race held in Japan, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action. A weasel with a tiny shoe in its ...