{"id":2318378,"date":"2026-03-08T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2318378"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:49:11","slug":"blackpinks-lisa-visited-viral-monkey-punch-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/blackpinks-lisa-visited-viral-monkey-punch-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpink\u2019s Lisa Visited Viral Monkey Punch in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"2.0\">\n<p>Blackpink\u2019s Lisa shared photos from a visit to Ichikawa City Zoo.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.1\">\n<p>She was visiting the macaque named Punch.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.2\">\n<p>Punch went viral for being alone at the zoo and emotionally supported by a stuffed monkey toy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">This weekend, pop star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a70260790\/lisa-netflix-romantic-comedy-movie-details\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a70260790\/lisa-netflix-romantic-comedy-movie-details\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Lisa\" data-node-id=\"4.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Lisa<\/a> from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70121266\/why-blackpink-jennie-jisoo-skipped-grammys-2026\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70121266\/why-blackpink-jennie-jisoo-skipped-grammys-2026\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Blackpink\" data-node-id=\"4.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Blackpink<\/a> went to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/travel-food\/a42589030\/elle-escapes-tokyo\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/travel-food\/a42589030\/elle-escapes-tokyo\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Tokyo, Japan\" data-node-id=\"4.5\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Tokyo, Japan<\/a>, for an adorable visit to the viral monkey star, Punch. Punch is a macaque who lives in the Ichikawa City Zoo in the Chiba Prefecture. He went viral online after being rejected by the other monkeys in his enclosure and offered a stuffed orangutan toy for comfort.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Lisa shared pictures of herself looking into Punch\u2019s enclosure and showing off her matching stuffed toy. In the pictures, she\u2019s wearing a gray hoodie with jeans and a white beanie\u2014and a huge smile.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"embed\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-1vw1yg0 e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-uwraif e1fodxfw3\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-1am3yn9 e1g9hcy40\"><span class=\"css-1nsb0hw e1geg53v1\">Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-17\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"embed\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-1vw1yg0 e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-uwraif e1fodxfw3\"><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Individual holding a stuffed animal near a railing at a zoo.\" title=\"Individual holding a stuffed animal near a railing at a zoo.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2050\" height=\"3643\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/277de52c-1538-4882-b5c0-9dc89305fe30.jpeg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-1am3yn9 e1g9hcy40\"><span class=\"css-1nsb0hw e1geg53v1\">Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Lisa has recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/tygo-extraction-release-date-news\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/tygo-extraction-release-date-news\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"begun filming\" data-node-id=\"9.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">begun filming<\/a> a new movie, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39114362\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_unrel_cdt_t_2\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39114362\/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_unrel_cdt_t_2\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Tygo\" data-node-id=\"9.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"9.3.0\">Tygo<\/em><\/a>, in South Korea. Blackpink also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a70535837\/blackpink-go-lyrics-song-meaning\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/music\/a70535837\/blackpink-go-lyrics-song-meaning\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"just released\" data-node-id=\"9.5\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">just released<\/a> their comeback mini album last week of February, so the singer and actress has been busy.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-18\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In September 2025, Lisa spoke to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/fashion-beauty\/16551\/lisa-blackpink-interview-another-magazine-kpop-white-lotus\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/fashion-beauty\/16551\/lisa-blackpink-interview-another-magazine-kpop-white-lotus\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"AnOther magazine\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"11.1.0\">AnOther <\/em>magazine<\/a> about her role on HBO\u2019s <em data-node-id=\"11.3\">The White Lotus<\/em> season 3, talking about working with the creator Mike White.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI had a lot of fun working on that,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019d love to do some more acting. It\u2019s a world I\u2019d like to learn more about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">While on <em data-node-id=\"13.1\">The White Lotus<\/em>, Lisa said, \u201cthere were a lot of memorable moments, starting when I sent in my audition tape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cThat was funny. It was just me and my team filming in a hotel room,\u201d she explained. \u201cThen I flew to Thailand to meet up with Mike White and we had a great initial conversation. Mike is really open-minded. While we were shooting, he was super-open to me trying out different things. He let Tayme [Thapthimthong], my co-star, and I do whatever we wanted to do, then if he wanted us to fix something, he\u2019d just tell us how. The cast were great. They\u2019re all big stars. It was a great experience to work with them. We had a lot of fun together.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-19\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-gnc8y1 e94w1mj1\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Blackpink\u2019s Lisa shared photos from a visit to Ichikawa City Zoo. She was visiting the macaque named Punch. Punch went viral for being alone at the zoo and emotionally supported by a stuffed monkey toy. This weekend, pop star Lisa from Blackpink went to Tokyo, Japan, for an adorable visit to the viral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2318379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[274717,449230,285977,285684,441834,449229,436397],"class_list":["post-2318378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-e90a237b-dc07-4048-87e4-b3201c9e554d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-blackpinks-lisa-visited-viral-monkey-punch","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blackpinks-Lisa-Visited-Viral-Monkey-Punch-in-Japan.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318380,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318378\/revisions\/2318380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}