Aoshima is a tiny island in Japan's Ehime prefecture where cats outnumber people eight-to-one. The so-called cat island is a tourist destination in the summer, but in the dead of winter the number ...

Sanagijima, a 50-minute ferry ride from Tadotsu Port in Kagawa Prefecture, is one of several islands in the Seto Inland Sea known as “cat islands.” The felines seemingly make themselves at ...

Japan's obsessive love of cats isn’t anything new for the island nation of 127 million people. The Japanese love for all things feline is exported throughout the world, thanks mostly to internet ...

Sanagijima Island is home to lots of free-roaming cats. Kuji rests on some cool shrine steps. Other cats hang out close to the sea, carefully making their way along a seawall. What are they doing?

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 ...

But hundreds of years before Hachiko, was a very loyal cat, which inspired a cat temple in Japan. The Unrinji Temple in west Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture, is a temple dedicated to cats and also ...

On this episode of Journeys in Japan ... cats and meeting local people who are helping to revitalize the area. An American man who moved to Onomichi has taken over an unused farm on an island ...