Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a mom of four, Le-An Than is always looking for new ways to entertain her kiddos. After all, there are only so many museums and playgrounds to patronize ...

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claw machines have been around since before World War II, but have gone through some radical transformation since (Philip FONG) ...

The Interior Ministry has banned the arcade "claw crane" machines at many shopping malls, deeming them gambling tools. The order banning the machines was signed by Pawin Chamniprasart, deputy interior ...

Tokyo: As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming hubs in ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo’s many bustling arcade halls — not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...