Heartwarming

He hid flowers in the trunk. She smelled them the moment she got in.

A first-grader on a one-kid crusade against evil gets the lesson of his life — from his mom.

"I'll stop by on my way home" is Japanese for "I'm not buying this" — except when it isn't.

The nation's strongest woman faces her biggest challenge — and it's not a 230kg deadlift.

A tourist flashing "Shin-Osaka" on their phone in Umeda kicks off a spontaneous three-person sprint through the station.

A guy lists the pros and cons of moving in with his grandma — every single con is about food.

A box of metal screws got run over in a service area parking lot. Someone with no obligation cleaned up every last one.

A junior employee clocked out early and left the most important thing on her desk.

Tomoyuki Oi scrubs public restrooms in the mountains by hand — and he's quietly changing how Japan thinks about the people who clean them.

She turned her silver hair into her signature — and the internet fell in love.

A photo of an old couple quietly watching sakura from a flatbed truck bed went viral — and everyone decided this is what a good life looks like.

When venting frustration doubles as a cake shop's best moment of the day.

When Mom lost an earring and felt awful about it, Dad's two-sentence response said everything about what decades of love actually looks like.

A fluffy Humboldt penguin chick at Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium tracks a keeper's moving shadow with breathtaking focus — right up until it figures out where the shadow is coming from.