For statues of brown cats, lines in scorched colors created with a wood-burning pen are sufficient to depict their fur.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman's terrifying ordeal after her feline friend vanished has the internet abuzz about the "Japanese missing cat method." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe you're brushing up on the Japanese language, are an aficionado of Japanese culture, or have Japanese heritage yourself.

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 ...