A humongous 3D cat is turning heads on a busy Tokyo street. The huge feline, nicknamed “Shinjuku Cat,” is a part of a billboard campaign. Decode and demystify Gen Z's latest online slang terms with In ...

As of June 1, Tokyo cat lovers deprived of feline affection will face something of a crisis as new animal welfare laws will go into effect requiring cat cafés, which provide kitty companionship for as ...

In Japan, since so many people who love cute animals live in apartments that don’t allow pets, you can find cafes that’ll let you relax in the company of everything from owls to bunnies. The most ...

Cat cafes have joined revolving sushi restaurants, karaoke joints, and pachinko parlors as a quintessential feature of the Japanese urban landscape. However, most cat cafes don’t look particularly ...

We step inside one of Ikebukuro’s most popular cat cafés, where we get to relax with playful cats in a cozy setting. In this ...

A Tokyo 'cat cafe' has been raided by health inspectors and ordered to close its doors due to animal neglect, after complaints about nasty smells coming from the premises. 'Neko no Te' (meaning 'hand ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand Sensoji Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I ...

It’s hard to recollect much about my first cat café besides the unmitigated pleasure of the whole experience. The place was called Cateriam, on the second floor of a nondescript building in ...

Tokyo's Gotokuji temple has long attracted spiritual visitors with its thousands of figurines of beckoning white cats, thought to bring good luck. But of late it has brought in another breed: ...