Japanese Cat Names Inspired by Mythology. Japan has a rich, unique history of folklore populated by a vast array of mystical, eerie, and downright bizarre yokai.Like many famous yokai, our cats ...

A Japanese city is on high alert for a potentially toxic cat who fell into a vat of carcinogenic chemicals at a steel manufacturing plant and then escaped into the streets. YouTube/日テレNEWS ...

The Japanese city of Fukuyama is on alert after a cat wandered into a factory and fell into a tank filled with hexavalent chromium, a toxic substance that causes cancer.

— -- Meet Koyuki, the grumpiest cat of all. Hailing from Japan, the 9-year-old Scottish fold’s fierce feline face is enough to put this Grumpy Cat to shame. “Just her face is angry, but ...

The calico cat was appointed stationmaster at the Kishi station in Kinokawa, Japan, in 2007. In her custom-made stationmaster’s cap and a jacket, Tama quietly sat at the ticket gate welcoming ...

How Japan's 'cat lit' lures fans abroad. Books about felines leave an outsize pawprint at home and abroad. Japanese poet and novelist Takashi Hiraide's cat Uzuki strikes a literary pose.

Japanese Girl Cat Names. In Japanese, most given names can be written with kanji, or traditional Chinese characters. A lot of kanji share similar sounds with each other but have entirely different ...

Popular Japanese Cat Names. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, there were approximately 9 million pet cats currently living in Japan as of October 2023. That's a lot of cats - and a lot of cat ...