Aoshima is a dwindling fishing community of elderly people who live mainly off retirement benefits. The cats were originally brought over to the island to deal with mice plaguing fishing boats. But ...

Tourists are flocking to a remote island in southern Japan, where an army of feral cats now outnumbers humans six to one. People first migrated to the 1.6-kilometre island of Aoshima 380 years ago and ...

AOSHIMA, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 27: Cats look on as an island resident feeds a kitten on September 27, 2018 in Aoshima, Japan. Aoshima island has come to be known for… Getty Images ...

Mrs Kamimoto is an Aoshima islander who has been taking care of the 70 to 80 resident cats for many years. Photograph: Kazuma Obara/The Guardian Famous for felines that outnumber its humans, Aoshima ...

Niigata is a hotspot on the national ramen map, with fierce competition among various schools of noodles served there. One popular version is Nagaoka’s shōga-jōyu ramen, blending soy and tonkotsu ...

Aoshima, an island just off the coast in the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture’s Nichinan Kaigan region, is designated a special natural monument as the home of 27 tropical and subtropical palm ...

Why it's incredible: Cats outnumber humans by about 27 to 1. Aoshima is a tiny, 0.2-square-mile (0.5 square kilometers) Japanese island in the Seto Inland Sea that is home to around 80 feral cats and ...