Japan's obsessive love of cats isn’t anything new for the island nation of 127 million people—but with International Cat Day being celebrated today, August 8, there’s no better time to explore it. The ...

More cats than people live on a real island in Japan. The numbers have stayed that way for years, long enough to attract global attention and steady tourism. Online photos made the imbalance famous, ...

TASHIROJIMA, Japan — On a small island off Japan's northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The "Neko Jinja," or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as ...

Tourists pet cats May 18 on a street on Tashirojima island in Ishinomaki, northeast Japan. A tourist pets a cat May 18 as other cats hang out at a shrine dedicated to the feline on Tashirojima island ...

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