Once upon a time, a turtle spied a big log floating on the river, traveling fast. Peering at it closer, the turtle saw that it was a banana tree, and he thought, "What a nice thing to plant," so he ...

Once upon a time, a family of monkeys lived upon a riverbank in India, and life was good. However, their river was full of crocodiles, and so the monkeys were always careful not to dip even a toe into ...

I met that elderly monkey in a small Japanese-style inn in a hot-springs town in Gunma Prefecture, some five years ago. It was a rustic or, more precisely, decrepit inn, barely hanging on, where I ...