Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

To test the theory, aquarium staff decided to attach large cut-out photos of human faces to a row of uniforms along the side ...

The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his appetite ...

An aquarium in Japan has come up with a unique and out-of-the-box idea to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish after the ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...

SHIMONOSEKI: A lonely ocean sunfish in a Japanese aquarium, which seemed to be missing its human visitors and caretakers ...

A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell ...

Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment ...

Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.

"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors ...

The Japanese aquarium posted a photo on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on 3 January, showing the sunfish named ...