35 What is the best Japanese name for a bear that isn't actually a bear? (About Hole Bears, Bag Bears & More)

<p>On this episode of <em>Ichimon Japan</em> we once again ask: What is the best Japanese name for a bear that isn't actually a bear?</p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Topics Discussed<br /></strong></h2> <ul> <li>Japanese names of animals that have "kuma" in them but are not actually bears</li> <li>What an <em>anaguma</em> is</li> <li>How you say badger in Japanese</li> <li>What a <em>mujina</em> is</li> <li>What honey badger is in Japanese</li> <li>What <em>fukuroguma</em> are</li> <li>What the word <em>fukuro</em> means</li> <li>What "bag bears/pouch bears" are</li> <li>How you say marsupial in Japanese</li> <li>What a <em>kinoborifukuroguma</em> is</li> <li>How you say koala in Japanese</li> <li>What a "bag/pouch wolverine" is</li> <li>Japanese terms used to refer to the tasmanian devil</li> <li>What wolverine is in Japanese</li> <li>The 1984-85 spike in popularity that koalas experience in Japan (a.k.a. the Japanese koala boom of the mid-80s)</li> <li>The 1984 anime <em>Fushigi na Koara Burinkī</em> (ふしぎなコアラ ブリンキー, Noozles, The Wondrous Koala Blinky)</li> <li>The 1984 anime <em>Koara Bōi Kokkī</em> (<span lang="ja" title= "Japanese language text" xml:lang="ja">コアラボーイコッキィ</span>, Adverntures of the Little Koala)</li> <li>What a <em>komoriguma</em> is</li> <li>What a <em>shirokuroguma</em> is</li> <li>What the <em>wamei</em> (native Japanese term) for panda is</li> <li>Whether pandas are bears or raccoons</li> <li>Rilakkuma</li> <li>The theory that Rilakkuma is actually a man in a full body costume (<em>kigurumi</em>)</li> <li>How you say raccoon in Japanese</li> <li>What <em>araiguma</em> literally means</li> <li>Whether the name "washing bear" is an accurate name for a raccoon</li> <li>Do raccoons actually wash their food before they eat it?</li> <li>A funny Japanese video showing a raccoon trying to wash cotton conday only to see it dissolve in water</li> <li>What the earliest documented case of raccoons escaping activity in Japan appears to be</li> <li>The 1977 anime <em>Araiguma Rasukaru</em> (<