No country adores cats quite as much as Japan. One look at Japanese art, literature, or media, and you’ll see just how Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bobtail cat in Nagasaki (AP) In Nagasaki, Japan, the bobtail cat is more than just a pet; it's a symbol of good luck. Known ...

A couple in Japan spent two years designing a custom cat litter box that looks like a house and solves every common problem.

If you happen to travel around rural Japan by rail, there’s a chance you’ll encounter a cat stationmaster. Japan has a few ...

TASHIROJIMA, JapanTASHIROJIMA, 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, ...

In Japan, cats are everywhere. They peer out from book covers, greet customers from shopfronts, and nap lazily in cafés built entirely around their catty charm. Entire islands are known for their ...

Cats are beloved in Japan, as they have been for thousands of years. From old mythological tales of feline yokai like the smart shape-shifting bakeneko to the Hello Kitties and lucky maneki-nekos of ...

While the domestic cat is believed to have originated in the Middle East, the species’ affable nature and prowess for rodent extermination has allowed it to expand across the globe, reaching some of ...