Japan is famous for its cat islands, with close to a dozen small landmasses earning the moniker due to their large stray cat populations. However, one of the most famous, Aoshima, located a 30-minute ...

A stray bobtail cat rests at a park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on April 26, 2025. Credit: AP/Eugene Hoshiko “Having bobtails is no problem for most cats living a normal life, as long as they ...

Located in Wakayama, a spirituality hub just over an hour away from Japan's most budget-friendly ... centers around the adorable story of a cat named Tama-chan. Tama-chan's tale started in the '90s, ...

Indonesia’s capital has 750,000 stray cats and the city government wants to use an offshore island to house 1,000 of the ...

They hunted rats to protect shipments on their way from Southeast Asia to Japan, according to Nagasaki cultural officials. A stray bobtail cat rests at a park in Nagasaki, southern Japan ...

A stray cat (left) pictured by Andrew Marttila in Bosnia ... the duo traveled the breadth of the world, from Japan, Malaysia, Montenegro, Athens, Nepal, to Dubai. They met with local animal ...

Japanese researchers have now shed some light on one of the most intriguing of these mysteries by discovering the genetic ...