Located off the coast of Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku, you'll find Aoshima, one of Japan's famous dozen or so "cat islands ... like the Wakamiya Shrine and the small Aoshima Buddhist Temple ...

He explained that the concept is not entirely new, as similar cat islands already exist in other countries. "In Japan, such islands have already been established," he stated at Jakarta City Hall on ...

There are 416 populated remote islands in Japan, according to the 2015 census. They include Okishima, a tourist-popular island on the waters of Lake Biwako in Shiga Prefecture, known as “cat ...

Japan has over 14,000 islands and their inhabitants keep each unique local culture alive. Kobi Island has just 13 residents; we met four lively women who pray at the local shrine's sacred boulder.

TOKYO, December 3. /TASS/. A Siberian cat called Mir (Russian for "peace"), which Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to the governor of Japan's northern Akita Prefecture Norihisa Satake in 2012 ...