Worms to love by.

• Author: Belson, Ken
• Position: International - Popularity of worm museum in Tokyo, Japan - Brief Article

What's more romantic than reading love poems or taking moonlit walks on the beach? For young Japanese couples, it's cozying up to worms two-car-lengths long at the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo. The museum is devoted entirely to tapeworms, bloodsuckers, and other organisms that feed off their hosts. In the last several years, the ghoulish gallery has turned into an urban lovers' lane, where eager couples come to bond and test their mutual mettle.

"The museum is seen as some kind of fun house," says Professor Akihiko Uchida, its director...