Pankun

Pan-kun is a chimpanzee in Japan often featured on the NTV television show ' and the TBS program '. Most of the segments feature him and his bulldog friend, James, embarking on a variety of "human" tasks, like buying groceries, planting a rice paddy, or catching insects.
Pankun is now owned by Cuddly Dominion, a zoo located beside the volcano Mount Aso, in the Kumamoto Prefecture of Kyūshū. After moving in, Pankun has turned into the main event of the zoo, featuring daily stage shows of various themes in Japanese.

Attack

In 2012 when Pankun was performing for the Aso Cuddly Dominion Zoo, he attacked a student trainee staff member and severely injured her. The attack was sudden and it left "cuts on her forehead, ears, ankles, and back." The woman was flown by a helicopter to a hospital where she was hospitalized for weeks. As a result, Pankun was forced to retire from the show business in the Cuddly Dominion zoo.

Legacy of the show

The show has also been translated into international versions; for Nickelodeon in India as The Munnabhai Show, for JET TV in Taiwan, for Modern Nine in Thailand and TVB in Hong Kong as The Adventures of Pan and James: Chimpanzee and Bulldog on Errands, winning Best Foreign Purchased Program at the 2006 TVB Anniversary Awards. Another show called We Are Friends, which also involves a chimpanzee and a French bulldog companion, was filmed in Thailand but aired on Zhejiang TV.