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    MEOW! Welcome to CAT ISLAND

    Feb 01, 2022 2 minutes
    by Marcia Amidon Lusted

    Imagine an island where cats outnumber people. Does it sound like something from a cartoon or a Japanese manga story? Welcome to Tashirojima, a small island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan’s To¯hoku region. It’s a great place to be a cat. Not only does the cat population number in the thousands, much larger than the island’s human population of

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