TASHIROJIMA, Japan (AP) — 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 ...
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 as ...
May 25, 2024 May 25, 2024 Updated May 25, 2024 0 Tourists pet cats May 18 on a street on Tashirojima island in Ishinomaki, northeast Japan. A tourist pets a cat May 18 as other cats hang out at a ...
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 as ...